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Volume 13, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2031-5937
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Abstract

Abstract

Arab tribes are not corporate, solidary or legal bodies, but aggregations of sets of ordered names, whose members are autonomous individuals living in a moral balance where jural and political action is vested in the person. Each manages his own affairs, lives from his resources, and shares moral premises. Geographic spaces are described by individuals who construct landscapes through observation, association, use and development. Relations with the lands and waters used for livelihood are founded in the person as claims and rights rather than the ability to dispose of at will. Places are described in terms of persons with claims of potential and achieved livelihoods that are defended, and expressed in jurally constituted terms. Tribal lands are a more appropriate description than territories. Tribespeople move in and out of their lands, and others enter them in reciprocal systems of production and distribution.

Abstract

Les tribus arabes ne sont pas des entités corporatives, solidaires ou juridiques, mais des regroupements d’ensembles de noms ordonnés, dont les membres sont des individus autonomes vivant dans un équilibre moral où l’action juridique et politique est dévolue à la personne. Chacun gère ses propres affaires, vit de ses ressources et partage des postulats moraux. Les espaces géographiques sont définis par des individus qui construisent des paysages par l’observation, l’association, l’usage et le développement. Le rapports aux terres et à l’eau utilisée pour la subsistance est fondé sur la personne en tant qu’individu ayant des revendications et des droits plutôt qu’une capacité à en disposer à volonté. Les lieux sont décrits en termes de personnes revendiquant des moyens de subsistance potentiels et acquis, qui sont défendus et exprimés en termes juridiquement constitués. Il est préférable de les décrire comme des « terres tribales » et non comme des « territoires ». Les membres des tribus entrent et sortent de leurs terres, et d’autres y pénètrent, dans des systèmes réciproques de production et de distribution.

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