Jericho (Ariha): A Case of a Diverse Rural Settlement in Late Ottoman Palestine

Part 4: Jericho – a Bedouin Settlement? Sarah Büssow At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British traveler James Silk Buckingham described Jericho as a village with little agriculture. According to Buckingham, it was mainly women and children who engaged in growing onions and various types of grain, whereas the men “roam[ed] the plains on horseback and live[ed] by robbery and plunder” ((Buckingham. 1821. 302)). Buckingham’s disparaging tone aside, this was reminiscent of a Bedouin...