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Avenues for Further Learning

Bedouins

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Katakura, Motoko. Bedouin Village: A Study of a Saudi Arabian People in Transition. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1977.

Geldermalsen, Marguerite van. Married to a Bedouin. London: Virago, 2000.

Mundy, Martha, ed. The Transformation of a Nomadic Society in the Arab East. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Webster, Donovan. "Empty Quarter: Exploring Arabia's Legendary Sea of Sand." National Geographic (Feb. 2005): 2-31.

Tribes of Papua New Guinea

Brison, Karen. Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

French Smith, Michael. Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.

Mead, Margaret. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1980.

Quechuan Indians and the Altiplano

Guillermoprieto, Alma. "The Altiplano." National Geographic (July 2008): 66-87.

Osborne, Harold. Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Bajau Laut and Other "Sea Gypsies"

Hope, Sebastian. The Outcasts of the Islands: The Sea Gypsies of South East Asia. London: HarperCollins, 2001.

Ivanoff, Jacques. "Moken: Sea Gypsies of Myanmar." National Geographic (April 2005), 36-55.

"The Bajau." Peoples of the World Foundation. http://www.peoplesoftheworld.org/text?people=Bajau

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