Description: This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersections of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness, and politics.
Brief description: Leonardo Schiocchet has a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and a Habilitation in social and cultural anthropology (University of Vienna, 2022). He is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), a member of the Refugee Outreach & Research Network (ROR-n), and principal investigator of the FWF project The Austro-Arab Encounter. Since 2005, his work has focused on social belonging processes among Arab forced migrants.
Review Quotes: »The book clearly illustrates and deconstructs how religion, nation politics, identity, and belonging can be integrated into the daily life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a deep insight into Palestinian lives in refuge in Lebanon.«-- "Dawn Chatty, Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford"