Neo-Polygamous Activity among the Bedouin of the Negev, Israel: Dysfunction, Adaptation—Or Both?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Polygynous marriage among the bedouin of the Negev Desert, Israel, has gone through a number of phases over the past century. While historically, this practice was relatively rare, limited to wealthier sheikhs and tribal leaders, it has increased since Israeli independence (1948) as economic opportunity and social pressures have fostered its expansion. Two key historic changes in the region are seen to have played a role in the growth of polygyny: the establishment of a forced bedouin sedentarization initiative beginning in 1965, and the Israeli conquest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967. These developments, along with the signing of a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994, opened opportunities for polygynous relationships with women from outside the Negev, as well. This paper documents the development of a more recent practice in which bedouin men are now seeking co-wives from outside of the Middle East altogether. This practice, I contend, contradicts State interests, and the desires to manage and “modernize” this community as originally designed by the resettlement initiative. Rather, such “neopolygynous” behavior well exemplifies bedouin communal efforts to negotiate their newly developing post-nomadic–and possibly, postbedouin–identities within an ever-expanding “Third Space.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".