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27%OFFJohn Borneman - Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo - 9780691158037 - V9780691158037
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Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo

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Description for Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 49 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBS; JFSK2; JHMC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent much time among different men, observing and becoming part of their everyday lives. Syrian Episodes is the striking result. Recounting his experience of living and lecturing in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city, John Borneman offers deft, first-person stories of the longings and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158037
SKU
V9780691158037
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About John Borneman
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)

Reviews for Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
"First of all, the book is gorgeously written. Second, it is the anthropology of experience rather than the anthropology of abstruse theory."
Martin Peretz, New Republic "Vivid detail fills Syrian Episodes, a book startling in its frankness about the Princeton professor's friendly, frustrating, and even flirtatious encounters in Syria's second-largest city... The author fulfills his early promise of an ethnography that ... Read more

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