Borneman Syrian Episodes

Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3196-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Borneman, John W.

Borneman, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxix

Chapter I: P Aleppo 1

"Prayer is better than sleep" 1

Imad's Japanese Girlfriend 7

Farce 11

"I would rather have children than fly" 13

"Once you love deeply, you never forget" 21

"My father says he saves for me" 23

"As long as she gets along with me, she will have no problems with my mother" 26

"Do you desire your mother?" 29

Traffic, or the Normal Order of Things 31

Preparing to Teach 42

Administrative Pleasantries 43

"But we are homophobic!" 52

"So, what do you think of Muslims?" 62

"I'd like to be the next president" 68

"The religious people see this and hate it, but they cannot turn it off" 74

"God will tell us when we have to do something" 84

"Kiss Daddy! Kiss Daddy!" 88

Chapter II: P The Souk 96

"Come into my shop and let me take you" 96

"Do you have a brother?" 100

"Ossi oder NorMAL?" 103

The Souk's Logic of Exchange 107

Fathers, Sons, Brothers, and Inheritance 112

Dream Collector 115

Dream of the Mistress 117

"How great is my disappointment when I see my dreams breaking down" 119

"Every woman thinks I only want to sleep with her" 123

Cell Phone, Cassettes, String Underwear 127

"That is fieldwork!" 128

"A father, perhaps a brother" 130

Fathers and Sons 145

"It is a blessing" 149

The Rumor 153

Chapter III: P Syria 156

"These are my children" 156

Aleppian Food, in Public 162

Obtaining an Exit Visa 166

The Ba'ath Party 169

Student Radicals 175

Teaching Anthropology and American Culture 178

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 187

Wild Dog Attack 190

Chapter IV: P Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Syria 192

Pedagogy 192

Lectures 194

Films 196

Coda: January 2006 200

Further Reading 225

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

John Borneman is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority and Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton)