ISBN:
978-0-520-24661-4
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 426 Seiten, 3 ungezählte Blätter Portraits
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Second edition
Keywords:
Naher Osten Mittlerer Osten
;
Ägypten
;
Kuwait
;
Bachtiaren
;
Algerien
;
Iran
;
Palästina
;
Syrien
;
Gesellschaft
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Soziale Schichtung
;
Soziokultureller Kontext
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Mittelklasse
;
Geschichte
;
Biographie
;
Biographische Methode
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- 1. Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian -- Part One. Precolonial lives -- 2. Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater -- 3. Shemsigul: a Circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano -- 4. Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective biography / Sherry Vatter -- 5. Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson -- 6. Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke III -- 7. Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler -- Part Two. Colonial lives -- 8. The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith -- 9. Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer -- 10. Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury -- 11. M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar -- 12. Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian -- 13. Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida -- Part Three. Post-Colonial lives -- 14. Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod -- 15. Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck -- 16. An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. J. Fischer -- 17. Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani -- 18. Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann -- 19. Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray -- Part IV. Contemporary lives -- 20. Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture / Fanny colonna -- 21. Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg -- 22. Khanom Gohary: an Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar -- 23. Nadia: mother of the believers / Baya Gacemi -- 24. June Leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara Neuman -- 25. Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence -- Glossary -- List of contributors
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