Ethnic business entrepreneurship among urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel

Nomadic Peoples

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-100

  Meir, Avinoam ^a   Baskind, Ayelet ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

'true' Bedouin; Business environment; Ethnicity; Fellahin Bedouin; Land; Market economy; Traditional practices

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEGEMONY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LANDOWNERSHIP; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBSISTENCE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 34047104926     PISSN: 08227942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/082279406781020437     Document Type: Review

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