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  1. Non-genealogical Names of Tribes, Sub-tribes, and Clans in Nineteenth-Century Palestine

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  2. List of Non-taxonomic Plant Terms in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  3. Preliminary Material

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  4. List of Kinship Groups Named after Types of Marine Life

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  5. List of Sedentary Kinship Groups Named after Natural Species in Northern Jordan

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  6. Many Bedouin families, lineages, and tribes are named after plants.

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  7. List of Non-taxonomic Bird Terms in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  8. List of Taxonomic Terms for Mammals in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  9. List of Terms for Marine Life (Fish, Sharks, Corrals, Etc.) in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  10. Many Bedouin families, lineages, and tribes are named after birds.

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  11. Preliminary Material

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  12. List of Taxonomic Bird Terms in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  13. List of Non-taxonomic Terms for Mammals in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  14. List of Kinship Groups Named after Insects, Spiders, and Scorpions

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  15. List of Nicknames Derived from Terms for Natural Species Found in the Onomasticon Arabicum

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  16. Many Bedouin families, lineages, and tribes are named after mammals.

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  17. List of Terms for Insects, Spiders, and Scorpions in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  18. Ancestor Eponymy: Kinship Group Names Derived from Biological Terms That Are Also Used as Personal Names

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  19. List of Taxonomic Plant Terms in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  20. Comparison of Standard Arabic Bird Terminology with Two Sets of Colloquial Arabic Terms (after Zalat and Gilbert 2008: 164–197 and Hobbs 1989: 129–133)

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  21. List of Kinship Groups Named after Reptiles and Amphibians

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  22. List of Terms for Reptiles and Amphibians in Arabic

    Article • March 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  23. Explaining Why Bedouin Give Non-Human Names to Their Tribal Segments

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  24. Evidence that socially mixed groups have animal names more often than homogeneous groups

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  25. Many Arabic terms for mammals are obscure and poorly defined

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  26. This study sorted out strong explanations of Arab kinship group names from weaker explanations.

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  27. Images on front cover plus lists of figures, tables, appendices, and abbreviations used in the book

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  28. The puzzle: why use terms for birds and mammals as names for groups of people?

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  29. Over 2,000 Arab kin groups have animal names. How many of these cases have been properly explained?

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  30. How to identify Arab groups named after animals without translating thousands of Arabic group names?

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  31. Special issues in collecting Arabic terms for plants, insects, and other life forms

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  32. How to find the Arabic words for birds and provide scientific definitions of them

    Article • January 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William Charles Young

  33. The Uses of Kinship for Political Ends by Local Descent Groups in Jordan

    Article • Kinship, July 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr. William Charles Young

  34. National meal or tribal feasting dish? Jordan’s mansaf in cross-cultural perspective

    Article • Food Culture & Society, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William Charles Young

  35. KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD

    Article • Structure and Dynamics eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences, January 2019, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr. William Charles Young

  36. The Rashāyida Arabs vs. the State: The Impact of European Colonialism on a Small-Scale Society in Sudan and Eritrea

    Article • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, September 2008, Project Muse

    Dr. William Charles Young

  37. Arab Hospitality as a Rite of Incorporation. The Case of the Rashaayda Bedouin of Eastern Sudan

    Article • Anthropos, January 2007, Nomos Verlag

    Dr. William Charles Young

  38. Families and the Handicapped in Northern Jordan

    Article • Journal of Comparative Family Studies, August 1997, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. William Charles Young

  39. From Many, One: The Social Construction of the Rashāyida Tribe in Eastern Sudan

    Article • Northeast African Studies, January 1997, Project Muse

    Dr. William Charles Young

  40. The Kaʿba, Gender, and the Rites of Pilgrimage

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. William Charles Young