Tale of a Feud

Marieke Brandt is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2017).

‘A Masterful Microstudy of Inter-tribal Warfare.The book presents the minutiae of the intertwining of local and inter-state conflicts to which political science and international relations literature tends to give less consideration. [...]Because the book treats intertribal violence as a process rather than a measurable quantum acting as an independent variable, it makes a valuable contribution to the anthropology of violence and militarism that has emerged since the end of the Cold War.[...]This is a superb and tremendously moving book which is written in eloquent and jargon-free prose and is well-presented.’Gabriele vom Bruck in Jemen-Report Jg. 55/2024, Heft 1/2, 116-121.

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionNotes on TransliterationGlossaryAbbreviationsChronologyChapter 1: Childhood in ObscurityChapter 2: The Serpent with the Many HeadsChapter 3: Burdensome InheritancesChapter 4: The Road to PoliticsChapter 5: The Time of Faits AccomplisChapter 6: Those Who Loosen and Those Who BindSome Final Thoughts on Tribes, Politics, and PassionsReferencesIndex