Abstract
DR. HILMA GRANQVIST'S book is important both from a methodical point of view and on account of facts recorded in it. Her field studies were restricted to the village of Art as, situated south of Bethlehem at the edge of the Judaean desert and inhabited by Mohammedan Arabs. She examined all the information she was able to obtain regarding the marriages that had been contracted in the village during a period of a hundred years-in all, 264 marriages entered into by 199 men-and also procured information concerning a smaller number of marriages contracted by Aortas women with men in other places. On the basis of her family lists she worked out statistics and compiled tables which formed a complement to the genealogical trees, and round this foundation the rest of her material was grouped.
Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village
By Dr. Hilma Granqvist. Vol. 1. Pp. vi + 200. 75 Fmk. Vol. 2. (Societas Scientiarum Fennica: Com-mentationes Humanarum Litterarum, III, 8 and VI, 8.) Pp. 366. 160 Fmk. (Helsingfors: Akad-emische Buchhandlung; Leipzig: Otto Harrasso-witz, 1931, 1936.)
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WESTERMARCK, E. Mohammedan Marriage Customs. Nature 139, 49–50 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139049a0
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