Practicing sectarianism archival and ethnographic interventions on Lebanon / edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti.
| Other author | Deeb, Lara, 1974- |
| Other author | Nalbantian, Tsolin. |
| Other author | Sbaiti, Nadya. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023] |
| Description | x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Practicing sectarianism in Lebanon / Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti -- No room for this story : education and the limits of sectarianism during the Mandate Era / Nadya Sbaiti -- Negotiating citizenship : Shi'i families and the Ja'fari shari'a courts / Linda Sayed -- The archive is burning : law, unknowability, and the curation of history / Maya Mikdashi -- Donating in the name of the nation : charity, sectarianism, and the mahjar / Reem Bailony -- Along and beyond sect? : Olfactory aesthetics and Rum Orthodox identity / Roxana Maria Arãş -- From murder in New York To salvation from Beirut : Armenian intrasectarianism / Tsolin Nalbantian -- Inequality and identity : social class, urban space and sect / Joanne Randa Nucho -- When exposure is not enough : sectarianism as a response to mixed marriage / Lara Deeb. |
| Abstract | "Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. 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 historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference? Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. Practicing Sectarianism , taken as a whole, argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood--and dismantled--if we first take it seriously as a practice"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022008364 |
| ISBN | 9781503631090 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781503633865 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |