Intimate bodies, violent struggles : the poetics and politics of nuptiality in Syria

Caught between conflicting historical fantasies of an exotic Orient and images of the oppressive and threatening Other, Syria embodies both the colonial attraction of Arabesque par excellance simultaneously along with fears of civilization clashes. In anthropology the road to Damascus is a road less...

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Main Author: Kastrinou, A. Maria A.
Published: Durham University 2012
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557915