| #1301220 in Books | 2013-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.70 x6.10l,.97 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Hanging Out in South Beirut Cafés|By Etienne RP|Anthropology provides, among other things, a sense of locality. When you read a memorable ethnography, the spaces and places of the book become etched in your memory. After finishing the work, you might say, “I feel like I was there.” And yet the relationship between anthropology and space has been largely negle||Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies|One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
"This outstanding ethnography of contemporary urban Middle Eastern life focuses on Hezboll
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to...
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