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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East / / edited by Soraya Altorki |
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New York, NY, : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2015 |
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1 online resource (608 pages) |
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Blackwell companions to anthropology ; ; 27 |
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Ethnology - Middle East |
Middle East Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Preface xviii Part I Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues 1 1 Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion 3Deniz Kandiyoti 2 Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East 15Suad Joseph 3 Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East 40Soraya Altorki 4 Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies 72Steven C. Caton Part II Culture and Everyday Life 89 5 The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East 91Martin Stokes 6 Dreams and the Miraculous 107Amira Mittermaier 7 Refiguring Islam 125Nada Moumtaz 8 In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair 151Shahla Haeri 9 Trajectories of Gendered Labor 172Livia Wick 10 The Politics of Poetry 188J. Andrew Bush Part III Social Relations and Social Movements 205 11 Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa 207Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn 12 From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology 233Nicholas S. Hopkins 13 Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East 249Dawn Chatty 14 Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East 262Ilana Feldman 15 Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas 282Paul A. Silverstein 16a The Invention of the Mizrahim 316Ella Shohat 16b The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement 329Ella Shohat 17 Social Movements and Revolution 338Zeina Zaatari Part IV Law, Politics, and the State 361 18 Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context 363Hussein Ali Agrama |
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19 The Notion of Arab Culture and the "Colonial Present" 391Mayssoun Sukarieh 20 Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East 411Julia Elyachar 21 "States of Aspiration": Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East 434Michelle Obeid 22 Rethinking the "PostOttoman": Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective 452Hakem AlRustom 23 Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research 480Kamran Asdar Ali Part V Pop Culture and New Media 493 24 Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture 495John Philip Rode Schaefer 25 New Media and Electronic Networks 509Mark Allen Peterson Index 526. |
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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East.Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in the Middle East Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation in the Middle Eastern region and its relations with other areas of the world Features contributions by top experts in various Middle East anthropological specialties Features in-depth coverage of issues drawn from religion, the arts, language, politics, political economy, the law, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization. |
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