Practicing Sectarianism Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon.

Practicing Sectarianism Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon.

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historian...

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Main Author: Deeb, Lara
Other Authors: Nalbantian, Tsolin, Sbaiti, Nadya
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Communalism > Religious aspects.
Communalism > Lebanon.
Sects > Political aspects > Lebanon.
Sects > Social aspects > Lebanon.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Lebanon > Ethnic relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: Practicing Sectarianism in Lebanon
  • 1. No Room for This Story: Education and the Limits of Sectarianism during the Mandate Era
  • 2. Negotiating Citizenship: Shiʿi Families and the Jaʿfari Shariʿa Courts
  • 3. The Archive Is Burning: Law, Unknowability, and the Curation of History
  • 4. Donating in the Name of the Nation: Charity, Sectarianism, and the Mahjar
  • 5. Along and beyond Sect?: Olfactory Aesthetics and Rum Orthodox Identity
  • 6. From Murder in New York to Salvation from Beirut: Armenian Intrasectarianism
  • 7. Inequality and Identity: Social Class, Urban Space, and Sect
  • 8. When Exposure Is Not Enough: Sectarianism as a Response to Mixed Marriage
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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