TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obeid,Michelle
TI  - Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times
T2  - Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341
SN  - 9789004394346
AV  - HN659.A95 O24 2019
U1  - 306.095692 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Women
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Arsal
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Arsal (Lebanon)
KW  - Arsal (Lebanon
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Syria
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Names and Transliteration -- Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times -- Sociality between Movement and Space -- Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods -- Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present -- Marriage between Love and Fate -- Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship -- Local Elections: Politics at the Margin -- What the Future Hides -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004394346
ER  -