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Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society
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by Gilsenan, Mich�l


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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.

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  • Title Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society
  • Author Gilsenan, Mich�l
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Complete Numbers
  • Pages 375
  • Publisher University of California Press, Los Angeles
  • Date 1996-05
  • ISBN 9780520205901

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Michael Gilsenan is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University and Emeritus Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East (1990).
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