Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party

ISBN-13: 9780367506261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 340 str.

Sulayman N. Khalaf

Opis

Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and political relations among a rural community.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction and context  1. The native anthropologist  2. The old order  3. The Euphrates Express: expansion of the entrepreneurial capitalist economy and the solidification of state order  4. The party/state and politics of mobilization  5. Hawi Al-Hawa village: an outline of its origin and development  Part 2: History in individual lives  6. Hajj Khalaf al-Ibrahim al-Meshrif  7. Al-Mukhtar Mahmoud  8. Tieba Najm al-Khalaf  9. Doctor Najm al-Ramadan  10. Omar al-Hasan  11. Ustaz Omar al-Abdallah  12. Ustaz Comrade Hussein al-Assaf  13. Nahar al-Ibrahim  Part 3: Analysis and update  14. Reconstruction of socio-historical processes at the micro level  15.Peace and war in Hawi al-Hawa

O autorze

Sulayman Khalaf is a distinguished Syrian anthropologist. With a PhD from UCLA, he has published widely on Syria, Gulf Arab societies, and tribal communities. He taught at several Gulf universities and is an expert in intangible heritage. He retired in 2015 and now lives in Exeter.