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Village Life in Palestine; A Description of the Religion, Home Life, Manners, Customs, Characteristics and Superstitions of the Peasants of the Holy L
George Robinson Lees
Paperback. TheClassics.us 2013-09-12.
ISBN 9781230336138
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE PEASANTS OR FELLAHEEN. THE people of Palestine fall very naturally into three distinct classes. They will admit of a more detailed analysis, but as one of these divisions is represented by the peasants, it is altogether unnecessary in the scope of this little work to more than mention the others. 1. Medanyeh--townspeople. 2. Fellaheen--peasants, or country people. 3. Bedawin--nomads who dwell in tents. A very slight acquaintance with the inhabitants of the Holy Land will enable even the casual observer to distinguish between the residents of a town and the occupants of the surrounding neighbourhood. Costumes alone will serve as a guide when there seems to be no other means of identification. There is not, however, that difference in the dress or appearance of some of the Bedawin that visit Jerusalem to direct the traveller in making a reliable distinction between the farmer who works on the land, and the horseman who rides to the foray, as peasants who live near the country of the Bedawin adopt a similar headdress and cloak; and many tent-dwellers on the west of the Jordan have degenerated according to the notions of their more aristocratic brethren beyond the river, for they now till the soil But many marks of difference will soon be apparent when a more accurate knowledge has been obtained of their dress. This difference of costume might not be so readily understood in England, where dress is meaningless, and it is almost impossible to distinguish one person from another by his outward appearance, as social position is not determined by clothes, and garments are not always a guide to a man's occupation. No one is easily recognised as the member of a particular church or sect by his dress. In Palestine every man is
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