05099nam 2200601 450 991079615790332120230126215457.01-118-47572-01-78684-361-71-118-47565-8(CKB)3790000000020698(EBL)1895462(SSID)ssj0001481598(PQKBManifestationID)16040136(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481598(PQKBWorkID)11502007(PQKB)21653384(Au-PeEL)EBL1895462(CaPaEBR)ebr11197034(MiAaPQ)EBC1895462(OCoLC)874153739(EXLCZ)99379000000002069820160808h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to the anthropology of the Middle East /edited by Soraya AltorkiChichester, West Sussex, England :Wiley Blackwell,2015.©20151 online resource (608 p.)Blackwell Companions to AnthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-47561-5 1-118-47567-4 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Cover -- Table of Contents -- Title page -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A Note on the Transliteration of Middle Eastern Language Words, Terms, and Expressions -- PART I: Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues -- CHAPTER 1: Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures -- Troubled Legacies: Knowledge Production in the Middle East -- Post-Area Studies Scholarship: Sources of Inspiration -- The Power of Paradigms and the Place of Ethnography -- Mind the Gap: Integrating Political Economy -- Cross-Overs and Cross-Fertilization -- CHAPTER 2: Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East -- Part I: Locating the Middle East in Anthropology -- Part II: Middle East Anthropology Theory and Thematics -- Late 1970s to 2014 -- The Middle East Unbounded -- An Anthropology of Islam -- Women and Gender -- Queer Studies and Sexualities -- State/Citizenship/Civil Society/Law/Political Movements, and Institutions -- Wars, Revolutions, Violence, Neoliberalism -- Urban Studies -- Family Studies: Rethinking the "P's" "Women / Gender / Masculinity / Femininity -- Performance, Media Studies, and Reflexivity -- Science and Technology Studies -- The Historical Turn -- Part III: Lacuna, Silences, Absences -- Class/Division of Labor/Economies/Women and Work/the Market/Neoliberalism -- Race, Racialization -- Social/Political Movements/Everyday Politics/Everyday State -- Arab Families -- Youth, Children, and Socialization -- Intentionality/Subjectivity -- Intersectionalities and Sexualities -- The Global Middle East in Western Europe and the Rest -- Part IV: Next Generation of Middle East Anthropologists CHAPTER 3: Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East -- The Shift to "Macro-Anthropology" and Post-Structuralism -- Structure and Agency in Some Classic Works on the Anthropology of the Middle East -- Contentious Collective Action -- CHAPTER 4: Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies -- PART II: Culture and Everyday Life -- CHAPTER 5: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East -- CHAPTER 6: Dreams and the Miraculous -- Defining the Terms -- Notes on Methodology -- The Ordinariness of the Extraordinary -- Power and Politics -- Religious/Secular -- Looking Ahead, or: The Emergent -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 7: Refiguring Islam -- Islamic Tradition: Theoretical Intervention -- Early Elaborations of Islamic Tradition: Historical "Ethnographic Investigations" -- Second Wave -- Aspiration and Challenges to Coherence for Practitioners -- Coherence as Aspiration of Tradition: Transformation, Orthodoxy, and Authority -- Conclusion.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 religionBlackwell companions to anthropology.EthnologyMiddle EastMiddle EastSocial life and customsEthnology306.0956SOC002010bisacshAltorki SorayaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796157903321A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East2006587UNINA