essay
Reconstituting a Lebanese village society in a Canadian city
Arabic speaking communities in American cities • Staten Island, N. Y. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 39-52
By: Sweet, Louise Elizabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on her field work in rural Lebanon (1964-1965, 1969-1970) and participant observation of a picnic, a community gathering, and a visit among Arab-Canadians at an airport in Edmonton, Alberta, Sweet argues that Lebanese rural customs and etiquette continue to structure the behavior surrounding group encounters in Canada. What she calls 'pre-industrial bonds' survive in the immigrant community to affect social behavior in spite of acculturation. The reason for this, she argues, is because of the corporate individualism and class system of Canada which 'downgrades those without proper Canadian British language, or skills, or education, or economic resources, and so inhibits movement out of the lowest levels of the working class, invites no one to give up his close family and clan life for the industrial alternatives: vagrancy and welfare. (p. 50)'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Visiting and hospitality
- Etiquette
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Edmonton, Alberta
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louise E. Sweet
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 52)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73088936
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arabs--Canada