Counting Nomads: British Census Attempts and Tent Counts of the Negev Bedouin 1917 to 1948.

Citation:

Frantzman SJ, Levin N, Kark R. Counting Nomads: British Census Attempts and Tent Counts of the Negev Bedouin 1917 to 1948. Population, Space and Place [Internet]. 2014;(6) :552.

Abstract:

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.1795/abstract Byline: Seth J. Frantzman, Noam Levin, Ruth Kark ABSTRACT The census of nomadic populations poses a challenge for governing authorities. In 1945, the British Mandatory government of Palestine developed a novel method to enumerate the nomadic Bedouin population of the Negev. By using aerial reconnaissance photography to augment conventional methods, they counted the tents of the tribesmen and marked them on a small scale map. This represented the culmination of years of British efforts to estimate the nomadic population of Palestine's largest administrative area, the Beersheba subdistrict of the Negev Desert, between 1917 and 1948. The aims of this paper were to chronicle, examine, and evaluate the British Mandatory estimates and censuses of the Bedouin population of the Negev undertaken in 1922, 1931, and 1946, and to compare them with thei

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