ISBN:
9789004394339
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 182 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world Volume 16
Series Statement:
Woman and gender
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Obeid, Michelle, author Border lives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Obeid, Michelle Border lives
DDC:
306.095692
Keywords:
Women Social conditions 20th century
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Women Social conditions 21st century
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Ethnology
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Soziokultureller Wandel
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Modernisierung
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Konflikt
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Auswirkung
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Nachkriegszeit
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Grenze
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Grenzgebiet
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Geschlechterrolle
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Verwandtschaft
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Kommunalwahl
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Arsal (Lebanon Social conditions 21st century
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Arsal (Lebanon) Social conditions 20th century
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Lebanon Boundaries
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Syria Boundaries
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Libanon
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Syrien
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Entwicklung
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Sozialstruktur
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Sozialer Prozess
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Libanon
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Frau
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Soziale Situation
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Ethnologie
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Kulturanthropologie
;
Lebensbedingungen
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Staatsgrenze
;
Syrien
Abstract:
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 'changing times,' Michelle Obeid shows how restrictions in cross-border mobility, transformations in physical and social spaces, burgeoning new industries and shifting political alliances produced divergent ideologies about domesticity and the family, morality and personhood. Attending to metaphors of modernity in a rural border context, Border Lives broadens the sites in which modernity and social change can be investigated
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times
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1.1 Figuring Out Border Lives
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1.2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border
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1.3 The Ambivalence of Two States
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1.4 Rural Modernities
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2 Sociality between Movement and Space
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2.1 New Capacities for Sociality
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2.2 The Workings of ʿIshra
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2.3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption
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3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods
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3.1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment
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3.2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an ‘Evil State’
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3.3 Contested Moral Economies
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4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present
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4.1 Transhumance and Political Change
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4.2 Spatial and Human Organisation
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4.3 Herding Dilemmas
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4.4 Conflicts of Interest
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4.5 Envying ‘the Comfortable Woman’
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5 Marriage between Love and Fate
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5.1 The Befalling of Nasīb
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5.2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage
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5.3 Intergenerational Negotiations
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5.4 When Negotiation Fails
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6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship
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6.1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters
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6.2 Of Failed Bargains
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6.3 The Morality of Kinship
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7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin
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7.1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force
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7.2 1998: ʿĀʾila Redeemed
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7.3 Familism Strikes Back
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7.4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride
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7.5 The 2004 Lists: ‘Old Wine, New Bottles?’
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7.6 New Council, New Directions
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8 What the Future Hides
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8.1 A Visit in Post-Syrian Time
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8.2 Is it Possible to Move Backwards?
