Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The staying power of this book is how it models a way to think outside accumulated disasters as discrete events, how to use ethnography to render life under a constant state of precarity and violence. Khayyat’s approach, ethnographic sensitivity, and relentless focus on “living with” rather than “living despite” scale up and apply broadly to accumulated crisis in both other locales and on a planetary scale." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
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A Landscape of War is a rich and daring ethnography. Ethically and politically committed to honoring the terms through which her interlocutors understand their vital and lethal environments, Khayyat conceptualizes war as a place of life and reclaims resistance as political action, highlighting its ordinary and relational nature. . . . a powerful and necessary meditation on the domesticity of war: war as something that is managed and that can be (to a certain extent) tamed, as well as a space that is inhabited, that bitterly becomes home." * Current Anthropology *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Prelude: Warlight
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and the Text
Introduction: War, from the South
1. A Brief History of War in South Lebanon
2. Battle/field
3. The Bitter Crop
4. How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape
5. Maskun, or Nature’s Resistance
6. The Gray Zone
Conclusion: Life as War
Coda: A Marriage in Galilee
Notes
Bibliography
Index
