Table of Contents

Reincarnation – Transmigration of souls – Druze – Minorities – Ethnic-religious boundaries – Endogamy – Kinship studies – Anthropology, Oriental studies – Cultural geography – Political science, Ethnographic field research – Episodic interviews, Case studies – Arabic – Syria – Lebanon – Israel – Palestine – Jordan – Middle East

About the Author

Gebhard Fartacek holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Vienna and works as a senior research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS). His ethnographic field research focuses on pilgrimage and local conceptions of holiness (baraka), stories and discourses dealing with jinns and the evil eye, ethnic-religious boundaries, conflict resolution, and coping strategies in the Middle East.