The perspective of the book is largely first person, written from the author's viewpoint. Since this is a scholarly work, an ethnography in the anthropological tradition, much of the text is also written in the third person point of view, especially when the author describes the fieldwork done by other anthropologists on the same topic. Fieldwork is cited within the text, but the endnotes that follow the appendix give additional insights into others' work among the Bedouins.