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Wasita in a Lebanese Context: Social Exchange among Villagers and Outsiders
Frederick Charles Huxley
In the 1970s, Frederick Charles Huxley conducted fieldwork in the Lebanese village of Barouk to investigate the social process called wasita: a term that means, roughly, intermediary or mediation. He explains the geography and history of Lebanon as they relate to the country's social diversity, and argues for further examination of wasita as a process that operates on and between levels of society in economic, political, and social contexts. Following a detailed description of his ethnographic research, he discusses the importance of a better understanding of wasita in the context of the Lebanese civil war.
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Maps
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List of Plates
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Acknowledgments
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I. Introduction and Theoretical Background
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II. Ethnography of Field Site
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III. Psycholinguistic Experiment
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IV. Conclusion
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Appendixes
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Bibliography
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Published: 1978
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-1-951519-07-0 (ebook)
- 978-0-932206-62-6 (paper)