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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Prologue: The Man Himself
- Note on Arabic words
- Introduction Why “laughter”?
- One Exploring origins
- Two Studying anthropology in Oregon
- Three Being Lebanese
- Four Religious Syncretism
- Five Lebanese traders in West Africa
- Six Change as faith
- Seven Teaching in Beirut
- Eight Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences
- Nine The Exotic in the Suburbs of Beirut
- Ten Alumni and ʿ<i>ulama</i> in Bahrain
- Eleven Open secrets
- Twelve Table manners in Yemen
- Thirteen The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon
- Fourteen The Arab rich
- Fifteen Who wants to be a <i>Zaʿīm?</i>
- Sixteen Living in Great Britain
- Appendix 1 List of Research Projects
- Appendix 2 List of Publications
- Index
Dedication
Dedication
- Source:
- An Invitation to Laughter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Prologue: The Man Himself
- Note on Arabic words
- Introduction Why “laughter”?
- One Exploring origins
- Two Studying anthropology in Oregon
- Three Being Lebanese
- Four Religious Syncretism
- Five Lebanese traders in West Africa
- Six Change as faith
- Seven Teaching in Beirut
- Eight Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences
- Nine The Exotic in the Suburbs of Beirut
- Ten Alumni and ʿ<i>ulama</i> in Bahrain
- Eleven Open secrets
- Twelve Table manners in Yemen
- Thirteen The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon
- Fourteen The Arab rich
- Fifteen Who wants to be a <i>Zaʿīm?</i>
- Sixteen Living in Great Britain
- Appendix 1 List of Research Projects
- Appendix 2 List of Publications
- Index