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Below is a special offer for Maria Kastrinou's new book Power, Sect and State in Syria.
Power, Sect and State in Syria
The Politics of Marriage and Identity amongst the Druze
A. Maria A. Kastrinou | £69.00 £48.30
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Despite the attention placed on the fate of minorities in Syria as a result of the conflict in the country, the Druze of Syria are a community about which very little is known. A. Maria A. Kastrinou’s book offers a remedy for this situation through an examination of marriage practices and traditions. In doing so, she locates and analyses those contentious arenas in which local religious communities, authoritarian state policies and agents of neo-liberal globalisation converge and collide, thus offering a nuanced picture of the social and political struggles in contemporary Syria. It is through this original and unusual perspective that she highlights the formation and dynamics of power relations within and between the Druze religious community, the Syrian state and middle-class intellectuals. By showing how marriage practices, rather than being homogenous and traditional, are dynamic and subject to change depending on the socio-political or cultural context, Kastrinou makes this book relevant for those involved in the study of sociology, anthropology, politics, gender and Middle East studies.
9781784532208 | Hardback | 216 x 134mm | 288 pages
'...a highly important contribution to the scholarship on pre-2011 Syria and Syrians... a very rich ethnographic account... Kastrinou is able to convey not only scholarly excellence but deep emotional commitment to the people she has lived, laughed and cried with.'
- Professor Annika Rabo, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
'This powerful study is valuable as a rate contemporary account of the Syrian Druze... [Kastrinou's] discussion of sectarianism enlightens us about much that is going on in the Middle East today'
- Andrea B. Rugh, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.
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