Title: Lords of the Lebanese marches :
Authors: Gilsenan, Michael
Date: 1996
Publisher: I.B. Tauris,
Physical description: xv, 377 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Part 1. The rule of the lords from the snow to the sea. Figures in a landscape: one ; Figures in a landscape: two ; Contexts and contests -- Part 2. State and local narratives. Narratives, powers, persons ; Fathomless ocean ; Precarious archaism ; Underdeveloped periphery -- Part 3. The weight of the ancestors. Famine and memory ; Fellahin and famine -- Part 4. Marvellous stories, dirty deeds. Gallous story or dirty deed ; Marching in the wrong direction ; Joking, play and pressure ; The perils of display ; A killing in the street -- Part 5. Imperatives of work. The challenge of work and wages ; Horsemen on tractors -- Coda: The roses of life.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aristocracy (Political science)--Lebanon--ʻAkkār.; Land tenure--Akkar Plain (Syria and Lebanon); Lebanon--Kings and rulers.; Oral tradition--Lebanon--ʻAkkār.; Political anthropology--Lebanon--ʻAkkār.; Power (Social sciences)--Akkar Plain (Syria and Lebanon); Power (Social sciences)--Lebanon--ʻAkkār.; Social control--Akkar Plain (Syria and Lebanon); Social structure--Akkar Plain (Syria and Lebanon); Violence--Akkar Plain (Syria and Lebanon); Violence--Lebanon--ʻAkkār.; ʻAkkār (Lebanon)--Social conditions.; ʻAkkār (Lebanon)--Politics and government.