Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon Deeb Lara

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods.

How does it function as a marker of social difference?Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. What epistemological work does it do as a concept? The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed