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Are the Bedouin Now a Mirage?
Before, after, and during the fall of the Ottoman Empire, exchange in The Middle East has been complex: "Aspects of the household mode of production, along with aspects of kin-ordered, tributary, and mercantile modes—no single mode was dominant," (Cole). So individuals engaged in this mode or that mode of production, but on that Arabian Peninsula—that desert—individuals exchanged the goods and services they had to offer mediated by need. Need of water, need of food, need of technology—the Bedouin, for instance, were connected to urban specialists by their agents or individuals in possession of their product: they came to the Bedouin camps. If the Bedouin were left in need, however, they exacted raids for livestock and water (Toth). The incapability of the farmer's defense against these raids lead to the paying of tribute or the outright hiring of a group of Bedouin. But it is after the fall of the Ottoman Empire that the already......

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