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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