Research Article

Sociology of Tribal Community: Lebanese Emigrants Rethinking Pedigree as Pan-Tribal Cultural Individuality in Post-War Sierra Leone.

Authors

  • Mohamed Bangura Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Abstract

Academics critiquing pedigree and tribal categorisation in post-war Sierra Leone have lodged diminutive concentration on how Lebanese emigrants traverse the Sierra Leone tribal categorisation scheme and how they personality cultural individuality regardless of their daily social experience with foisted tribal categorisation in Sierra Leone. This social research addresses this lacuna by exploring foreign-born Lebanese Emigrant's social distinctiveness in the circumstance of an inflicted Sierra Leonean tribal categorisation social system. The upshot detailed at this moment shapes a segment of inclusive social research that explored how Lebanese emigrants in Sierra Leone's personality interpreted the encounter of tribalisation. The social researcher debated that by interpreting their tribe as Ash-sha’b Al-Lubnani, respondents reinterpreted the tribe as a pan-tribal cultural individuality, disregarding tribal individuality from physical features and complexion. Some emigrants who certainly are not personality individualised in conditions of composition lodged tribal categories are distinguishing cultural interpretations of individuality in post-war Sierra Leone.

Article information

Journal

British Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and History

Volume (Issue)

4 (1)

Pages

01-09

Published

2024-01-01

How to Cite

Bangura, M. (2024). Sociology of Tribal Community: Lebanese Emigrants Rethinking Pedigree as Pan-Tribal Cultural Individuality in Post-War Sierra Leone. British Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and History, 4(1), 01–09. https://doi.org/10.32996/pjpsh.2024.4.1.1

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Keywords:

Sociology, Lebenese, Pan-Tribal, Cultural Individuality, Sierra Leone