dc.contributor.author |
Al-Rammal, Rayane Mohammad |
dc.date.accessioned |
2021-09-23T09:00:39Z |
dc.date.available |
2023-01 |
dc.date.available |
2021-09-23T09:00:39Z |
dc.date.issued |
2019 |
dc.date.submitted |
2019 |
dc.identifier.other |
b25858002 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/23211 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, 2019. T:7125. |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Sylvain Perdigon, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies ; Members of Committee : Dr. Kirsten Scheid, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies ; Dr. Livia Wick, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 138) |
dc.description.abstract |
Three main assumptions prevail when the subject of how women who lost their loved ones: their sons, fathers and husbands or husbands-to- be fighting with Hezbollah, deal with their pain of grief, is brought into discussion. It is often presumed by some outsider observers that these women are traumatized, indoctrinated and brainwashed and that they are all the same. These assumptions are chiefly driven by the liberal dogma dictating that it is ‘uncivilized’ to embrace pain, rendering the hope these women find in the martyrdom of their dear ones profoundly unacceptable. Having a free self, we hear the liberal voices saying, does not entail the option of choosing death over life, nor gracefully welcoming the annihilation of someone we care about. I intend to investigate in this thesis to which extent these accounts are misguided, by trying to ethnographically capture the voices of these women, the complexity of their social worlds and the grief tensions of conflicting emotions, namely between contentment and grief, between worldliness and otherworldliness and between the individualizing and the collectivizing of grief. I am intending to show how a specific conception of death as martyrdom shifts the way one sees and respond to one aspect of the human life that it is primarily thought of as universal: death. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (ix,138 leaves) |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.subject.classification |
T:007125 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Hizballah (Lebanon) |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Martyrdom -- Islam. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Muslim women -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Social conditions. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Grief -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Contentment. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Beirut Suburban Area (Lebanon) -- Social conditions. |
dc.title |
The social and cultural experiences of women related to the Hezbollah’s martyrs in the southern suburb of Beirut (Al-Dahiya) |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |