Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times /

Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times /

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. In a rich ethnography of 'cha...

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Main Author: Obeid, Michelle (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World 16.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

Subjects:

Women > Lebanon > Arsal > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Lebanon > Arsal > Social conditions > 21st century.
Ethnology > Lebanon > Arsal.
Arsal (Lebanon) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Arsal (Lebanon > Social conditions > 21st century.
Lebanon > Boundaries > Syria.
Syria > Boundaries > Lebanon.

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Call Number: HN659.A95 O24 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Notes on Names and Transliteration
  • Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times
  • Sociality between Movement and Space
  • Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods
  • Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present
  • Marriage between Love and Fate
  • Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship
  • Local Elections: Politics at the Margin
  • What the Future Hides
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.