Border lives: an ethnography of a Lebanese town in changing times / / by Michelle Obeid.
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...
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| Superior document: | Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ;
16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 pages). |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004394346 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Michelle Obeid. |