Wasita in a Lebanese Context

Download or read book Wasita in a Lebanese Context written by Frederick Charles Huxley and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.