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CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Oriental Encounters Reflections on Authority in a Secular Dynasty Acknowledgments Chapter I: Aleppo "Prayer is better than sleep" Imad's Japanese Girlfriend Farce "I would rather have children than fly" "Once you love deeply, you never forget" "My father says he saves for me" "As long as she gets along with me, she will have no problems with my mother" "Do you desire your mother?" Traffic, or the Normal Order of Things Preparing to Teach Administrative Pleasantries "But we are homophobic!" "So, what do you think of Muslims?" "I'd like to be the next President" "The religious people see this and hate it, but they cannot turn it off" "God will tell us when we have to do something" "Kiss Daddy! Kiss Daddy" Chapter II: The Souk "Come into my shop and let me take you" "Do you have a brother?" "Ossi oder NorMAL?" The Souk's Logic of Exchange Fathers, Sons, Brothers, and Inheritance Dream Collector Dream of the Mistress "How great is my disappointment when I see my dreams breaking down" "Every woman thinks I only want to sleep with her" Cell Phone, Cassettes, String Underwear "That is fieldwork!" "A father, perhaps a brother" "It is a blessing" The Rumor Chapter III: Syria "These are my children" Aleppian Food, in Public Obtaining an Exit Visa The Ba'ath Party Student Radicals Teaching Anthropology and American Culture Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Wild Dog Attack Chapter IV: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Syria Pedagogy Lectures Films Coda: January 2006 Further Reading Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Ethnology -- Syria -- Aleppo.
Kinship -- Syria -- Aleppo.
Patriarchy -- Syria -- Aleppo.
Fathers and sons -- Syria -- Aleppo.
Philosophy, Arab.
Aleppo (Syria) -- Social life and customs.