Anthropology Papers, No. 1: Kafr Akab, Life in a Lebanese Village

Sometime during the 1940\u27s I began a modest ethnological type of study of a Lebanese village by querying immigrants from that community who were residing in the United States. Later, according to my plans, I would visit Kafr Akab and observe lifeways there myself. Several circumstances prevented this plan from being completed. (1) I found myself in military service during World War II which, of course, prevented me from contacting American Lebanese informants, and, (2) after World War II I found employment at the University of Montana where my research interests had to be diverted to other subjects. Yet, I had collected some information on the subject of Kafr Akab, its history, and the lifeways of the people who lived there during the late 1890\u27s and early 1900\u27s. Thus, I record here the results of my very modest efforts. It may even have some value to ethnographers in its present state of completion.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/anthropology_papers/1000/thumbnail.jp