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Work and Leisure in the Middle East - The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds (Paperback)
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Work and Leisure in the Middle East - The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds (Paperback)
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Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass
media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa.Yet leisure and
community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are
becoming increasingly significant as modernization becomes
pervasive. This work seeks to examine how the interconnection of
work and leisure operates in a culture far removed from North
American or European traditions. Robert A. Stebbins argues that the
Middle East is a region in the throes of a developmental crisis,
one of cultural underdevelopment. He indicates that while leisure
and community involvement may be labeled as largely trivial
activities, they in fact involve a nexus that crosses with the
labor process. Discussing activities as diverse as theater and
falconry, rotary clubs and brutal leisure'such as acts of terrorism
and revolutionary violence Stebbins offers a variety sufficient
enough to confirm that cultural development through leisure, work,
and community involvement has been possible. To provide the
background for this argument, Stebbins explains what community
involvement is, how it fosters cultural development, and offers a
look at contemporary leisure and work in a changing economic
climate. This is a unique look both at community involvement in the
Middle East and how it has affected the cultural, political, and
religious crisis. The book concludes by proposing that a new view
of work and leisure may serve to override social divisions and
traditional impediments to cultural development.
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