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The first anthropological study of an urban community in Saudi Arabia

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Study and Its Setting
• Part One: Political Autonomy, Domestically Organized Production, and Mercantile Trade
  • 1. The Autonomous Amirate
  • 2. The Old Agriculture
  • 3. Craft Production and the Old Market
  • 4. Caravans and Long-Distance Trade
• Part Two: Provincial City within a New State and the Development of Capitalist Social Formations
  • 5. Development of the New State and Education
  • 6. Occupational Change and New Institutions
• Part Three: Economic Boom and Transformation
  • 7. The Economic Boom, Expatriates, and Local Development
  • 8. The Market Today
  • 9. The New Agriculture
  • 10. Salaried Employment and Its Social Impact
  • 11. Changing Patterns of Social Life
  • 12. Analysis and Conclusion
• Glossary of Arabic Terms
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole are professors of anthropology at the American University in Cairo.