Border Lives An Ethnography Of A Lebanese Town In Changing Times

Author : Michelle Obeid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004394346

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Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times by Michelle Obeid Pdf

Border Lives offers an in-depth account of how people in Arsal, a northeastern town on the border of Lebanon with Syria, experienced postwar sociality, and how they grappled with living in the margins of the Lebanese state in the period following the 1975-1990 war.

Author : Nancy W. Jabbra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004459618

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Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village by Nancy W. Jabbra Pdf

In Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village: Generations of Change, Nancy W. Jabbra presents a detailed analysis of change in gender roles in a Christian community in rural Lebanon.

Author : Livia Wick
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815655725

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Sumud by Livia Wick Pdf

Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to the issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics, leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday working-class Palestinians exist day to day, negotiating military occupation and shifting social infrastructure. Wick’s powerful ethnography opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. She maps the ways in which individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories. Placing these oral histories in context, the book looks at the history of the infrastructure surrounding birth and medicine in Palestine, from large hospitals to village clinics, to private homes. As the medical landscape changed from centralized urban hospitals to decentralized independent caregivers, women increasingly carved a space for themselves in public discourse and employed the concept of sumud to relate their everyday struggles.

Author : Paolo Boccagni,Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia,Milena Belloni
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839097249

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Thinking Home on the Move by Paolo Boccagni,Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia,Milena Belloni Pdf

Thinking Home on the Move is a powerful and in-depth look into what we as humans perceive as ‘home’. It presents an interdisciplinary conversation with leading scholars to illuminate the state-of-the-art and the ways ahead for researching home on the move and from the margins. It asks the question, what is home, and why do we need it?

Author : John Gulick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : OCLC:246344432

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Social Structure and Culture Change in a Lebanese Village by John Gulick Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015052819342

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Anthropos by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Khanam
Publisher : Global Vision Publishing Ho
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : UOM:39015063669728

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Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia by R. Khanam Pdf

The Aim Of This Encyclopaedia Is To Highlight The Living Style Of More Than 350 Million People Of 47 Countries Of Middle-East And Central Asian Countries Who Have Been Residing In These Areas (Both Past And Present) And The Factors That Have Caused The Culture To Change Over Time And Place. This Monumental Work Presents An Ethnographical Analysis Of 227 Ethnic Communities Written By Eminent Scholars Which Deals With The Physical, Historical, Social, Political, Economic, Religious And Cultural Life. Summaries Of Each Entry Usually Provide Information On The Following Aspects: Physical Features; History Of Origin And Development; Social Life; Marriage And Family; Political Organisation; Social Conflict And Control; Economic And Commer-Cial Activities; Religion And Culture; And Bibliography For Further Studies.

Author : Elke Kaschl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004132384

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Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine by Elke Kaschl Pdf

"Dance and Authenticity" is an ethnography of dance performance and cultural form. It describes how "dabkeh," a type of dance performed at Palestinian weddings, became a model for the Israeli Jewish "debkah" as a means of affirming Israeli Jewish belonging and common society. The Palestinian "dabkeh," in turn, acquired nationalist meanings, especially after the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. The book traces the history of these competing, and conflicting, dance forms, basing the argument principally on the ethnographic study of two Palestinian and one Israeli Jewish dance group conducted between 1998 and 1999. The result is a fascinating parallel ethnography, showing how the ethnography of dance forms contributes to evolving notions of collective national and political identity in a context of unequal power.

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317550730

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Cultural Anthropology: 101 by Jack David Eller Pdf

This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated, ethnographically informed approach. The book develops readers’ understanding and engagement by addressing key issues such as: What it means to be human The key characteristics of culture as a concept Relocation and dislocation of peoples The conflict between political, social and ethnic boundaries The concept of economic anthropology Cultural Anthropology: 101 includes case studies from both classic and contemporary ethnography, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an essential guide for students approaching this fascinating field for the first time.

Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317093190

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Multi-Sited Ethnography by Mark-Anthony Falzon Pdf

Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years. It responds to the challenge of combining multi-sited work with the need for in-depth analysis, allowing for a more considered study of social worlds. This volume utilizes cutting-edge research from a number of renowned scholars and empirical experiences, to present theoretical and practical facets charting the development and direction of new research into social phenomena. Owing to its clear contribution to a rapidly emerging field, Multi-Sited Ethnography will appeal to anyone studying social actors, including scholars within human geography, anthropology, sociology and development and migration studies.

Author : Nora Stel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429785818

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Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty by Nora Stel Pdf

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first book to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country’s engagement with the recent Syrian refugee influx and the more protracted Palestinian presence. Drawing on fieldwork, qualitative case-studies, and critical policy analysis, it questions the dominant idea that the haphazardness, inconsistency, and fragmentation of refugee governance are only the result of forced displacement or host state fragility and the related capacity problems. It demonstrates that the endemic ambiguity that determines refugee governance also results from a lack of political will to create coherent and comprehensive rules of engagement to address refugee ‘crises.’ Building on emerging literatures in the fields of critical refugee studies, hybrid governance, and ignorance studies, it proposes an innovative conceptual framework to capture the spatial, temporal, and procedural dimensions of the uncertainty that refugees face and to tease out the strategic components of the reproduction and extension of such informality, liminality, and exceptionalism. In developing the notion of a ‘politics of uncertainty,’ ambiguity is explored as a component of a governmentality that enables the control, exploitation, and expulsion of refugees. Introduction Chapter of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : M. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137281999

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Women in Lebanon by M. Thomas Pdf

Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.

Author : Allaine Cerwonka,Liisa H. Malkki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226100289

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Improvising Theory by Allaine Cerwonka,Liisa H. Malkki Pdf

Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy. Improvising Theory centers on the year-long correspondence between Cerwonka, then a graduate student in political science conducting research in Australia, and her anthropologist mentor, Malkki. Through regular e-mail exchanges, Malkki attempted to teach Cerwonka, then new to the discipline, the basic tools and subtle intuition needed for anthropological fieldwork. The result is a strikingly original dissection of the processual ethics and politics of method in ethnography.

Author : Michel Agier
Publisher : Polity
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745649016

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Managing the Undesirables by Michel Agier Pdf

Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.

Author : Ulf Hannerz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800733190

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Afropolitan Horizons by Ulf Hannerz Pdf

Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.