Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab SocietyUniversity of California Press, 1. jan. 1996 - 377 sider Michael Gilsenan looks at the relations between different forms of power, violence, and hierarchy in Akkar, the northernmost province of Lebanon, during the 1970s. Often regarded as backward and feudal, in reality this area was controlled primarily by groups with important roles in government and business in Beirut. The most "feudal" landowners had often done most to introduce capitalist methods to their estates, and "backwardness" was a condition produced by this form of political and social control. Gilsenan uses material from his stay in Akkar and a variety of historical sources to analyze the practices that guaranteed the rule of the large landowners. He traces shifts in power, and he examines the importance of narratives and rhetoric in constituting social honor, collective biography, and shared memory/forgetting. His lively account shows how changes in hierarchy were expressed in ironic commentary regarding idealized masculinity and violence, how subversive laughter and humor counterpointed the heroic ethic of challenge and revenge, and how peasant narratives both countered and reproduced the values of hierarchy. Michael Gilsenan looks at the relations between different forms of power, violence, and hierarchy in Akkar, the northernmost province of Lebanon, during the 1970s. Often regarded as backward and feudal, in reality this area was controlled primarily by groups with important roles in government and business in Beirut. The most "feudal" landowners had often done most to introduce capitalist methods to their estates, and "backwardness" was a condition produced by this form of political and social control. Gilsenan uses material from his stay in Akkar and a variety of historical sources to analyze the practices that guaranteed the rule of the large landowners. He traces shifts in power, and he examines the importance of narratives and rhetoric in constituting social honor, collective biography, and shared memory/forgetting. His lively account shows how changes in hierarchy were expressed in ironic commentary regarding idealized masculinity and violence, how subversive laughter and humor counterpointed the heroic ethic of challenge and revenge, and how peasant narratives both countered and reproduced the values of hierarchy. |
Innhold
One | 3 |
Two | 23 |
Contexts and Contests | 38 |
PART TWO State and Local Narratives | 55 |
Narratives Powers Persons | 57 |
Fathomless Ocean | 67 |
Precarious Archaism | 79 |
Underdeveloped Periphery | 95 |
Gallous Story or Dirty Deed | 159 |
Marching in the Wrong Direction | 189 |
Joking Play and Pressure | 206 |
The Perils of Display | 231 |
A Killing in the Street | 250 |
PART FIVE Imperatives of Work | 263 |
The Challenge of Work and Wages | 265 |
Horsemen on Tractors | 281 |
PART THREE The Weight of the Ancestors | 113 |
Famine and Memory | 115 |
Fellahin and Famine | 140 |
PART FOUR Marvellous Stories Dirty Deeds | 157 |
CODA The Roses of Life | 299 |
Notes to Chapters | 322 |
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