Published by the Centre for Lebanese Studies and IB Tauris 2001 (298pgs) ISBN 1-86064-715-4
All Honourable Men examines the cultural values of honour and patriarchy
in Lebanon, with a particular concern to show how they influenced confessional
identity and conflict in the nineteenth and twentieth century. While there
are many studies of the social construction of difference, few deal with
the emotional content of ethnic violence. Drawing on sociological and
psychoanalytic theory and using comparative examples from other parts
of the world, Johnson analyses the violent emotions of confessionalism
in Lebanon.
Michael Johnson is Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies at
the University of Sussex.