People, Land, and Water in the Arab Middle East : Environments and Landscapes in the Bilad ash-Sham
\ William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster
Amsterdam
: Harwood Academic Publisher
, 1999
xv,458 p.
: ill., maps
Studies in environmental anthropology
, v. 2.
Index
Ch. 1. Aims and arguments ; methods of working -- ch. 2. The framework to social practice -- ch. 3. landscapes and nature -- ch. 4. Water -- ch. 5. Land use ; the practices of production systems using land as a primary resource -- ch. 6. Buildings and other structures -- ch. 7. Productivity, distribution and -- ch. 8. Integration into modernity.