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

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39433-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Obeid, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Names and Transliteration

1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times

1 Figuring Out Border Lives

2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border

3 The Ambivalence of Two States

4 Rural Modernities

2 Sociality between Movement and Space

1 New Capacities for Sociality

2 The Workings of 'Ishra

3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption

3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods

1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment

2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an ‘Evil State’

3 Contested Moral Economies

4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present

1 Transhumance and Political Change

2 Spatial and Human Organisation

3 Herding Dilemmas

4 Conflicts of Interest

5 Envying ‘the Comfortable Woman’

5 Marriage between Love and Fate

1 The Befalling of Nasib

2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage

3 Intergenerational Negotiations

4 When Negotiation Fails

6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship

1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters

2 Of Failed Bargains

3 The Morality of Kinship

7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin

1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force

2 1998: 'A'ila Redeemed

3 Familism Strikes Back

4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride

5 The 2004 Lists: ‘Old Wine, New Bottles?’

6 New Council, New Directions

8 What the Future Hides

1 A Visit in Post-Syrian Time

2 Is it Possible to Move Backwards?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Obeid, Ph.D. (2006), London School of Economics and Political Science, is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.