ISBN:
9780226434766
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Arab countries ; Social life and customs
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Ethnologists ; Lebanon ; Biography
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Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; Arab countries
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Khūrī, Fuʾād Isḥāq
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them-and him-laugh. "When I tell them that 'anthropology' is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine." This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri's astute memoir of life as an anthropologist i
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Prologue: The man himself; Note on Arabic words; Introduction: Why " laughter"?; 1. Exploring origins; 2. Studying anthropology in Oregon; 3. Being Lebanese; 4. Religious syncretism; 5. Lebanese traders inWest Africa; 6. Change as faith; 7. Teaching in Beirut; 8. Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences; 9. The exotic in the suburbs of Beirut; 10. Alumni and ulama in Bahrain; 11. Open secrets; 12. Table manners in Yemen; 13. The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon; 14. The Arab rich; 15. Who wants to be a zaim?; 16. Living in Great Britain
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Research ProjectsList of Publications; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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