All honourable men : the social origins of war in Lebanon / Michael Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Michael, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Social aspects.

Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Causes.

Lebanon.

Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Religious aspects.

Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Social aspects.

Lebanon--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

All honorable men

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Center for Lebanese Studies ; London ; New York : L.B. Tauris Publishers ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Summary:

Ethnic conflict is a pervasive feature of the modern world, yet while there are many studies of the social construction of difference, there are few that deal with the emotional content of ethnic violence. Drawing on sociological and psychoanalytic theory and using comparative examples from other parts of the world, Michael Johnson examines the history of confessional or ethnic identity in Lebanon and the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s. He demonstrates that far from being residues of a traditional society, the values of ethnic honor and shame are peculiarly modern phenomena. He explains the horrors of ethnic warfare in terms of social threats to patriarchal authority in sexually repressive families. These threats fuel a style of violence in which shame acquires its own dynamics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.

ISBN:

1860647154

OCLC:

48365862