Vol. 4 · No. 2 · 2000

Ann Gardner

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Times have changed from the time of the goats when we would move with them and make clarified butter and yogurt, and everything. Today is no longer like the past. Nowadays a woman sits in her house and does not go out with the goats, or anything else.1

The coastline along the Gulf of Aqaba in South Sinai, Egypt, with its beautiful beaches and tropical waters, has in recent years been heavily developed for tourism. I have known members of a tribe there since 1978, when I first started living with a family as a seventeen-year-old anthropology student from an open-walled college. This article illustrates the wide ranging effects that sedentarisation, mass tourism and other changes have had upon their personal lives, with particular attention paid to the women and older girls.