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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Khūrī Fuʼād Isḥāq"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"An invitation to laughter [[electronic resource] ] : a Lebanese anthropologist in the Arab world / / Fuad I. Khuri ; edited by Sonia Jalbout Khuri"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-281-95726-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-226-43475-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786611957261"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (223 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"305.80092"]
[{"$nulls":4},"B"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Ethnologists - Lebanon"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Ethnology - Fieldwork - Arab countries"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Arab countries Social life and customs"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue: The man himself -- Note on Arabic words -- Introduction. Why \"laughter\"? -- 1. Exploring origins. The choice of anthropology -- 2. Studying anthropology in Oregon. \"How wonderful!\" -- 3. Being Lebanese. A nationality or a profession? -- 4. Religious syncretism. \"I offer sacrifices to my ancestors on Friday because I am a Muslim\" -- 5. Lebanese traders in West Africa. Always ending the day in losses -- 6. Change as faith. The restless Americans -- 7. Teaching in Beirut. \"Sir, keep this information to yourself \" -- 8. Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences. The tyranny of consensus -- 9. The exotic in the suburbs of Beirut \"It is written\" -- 10. Alumni and 'ulama in Bahrain. \"We all seek knowledge\" -- 11. Open secrets Discussable but not publishable -- 12. Table manners in Yemen. Eat! Do not talk! -- 13. The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon. \"We eat bread, not potatoes\" -- 14. The Arab rich. \"An ugly horse that wins the race is praised for its good looks\" -- 15. Who wants to be a zaἵm? The agony of fame -- 16. Living in Great Britain. \"The best in the world\" -- Appendix 1: List of Research Projects -- Appendix 2: List of Publications -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or "]
[{"$nulls":4},"status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them-and him-laugh. \"When I tell them that 'anthropology' is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine.\" This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri's astute memoir of life as"]