LEADER 05099nam 2200601 450 001 9910796157903321 005 20230126215457.0 010 $a1-118-47572-0 010 $a1-78684-361-7 010 $a1-118-47565-8 035 $a(CKB)3790000000020698 035 $a(EBL)1895462 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001481598 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16040136 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481598 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11502007 035 $a(PQKB)21653384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1895462 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11197034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1895462 035 $a(OCoLC)874153739 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000020698 100 $a20160808h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the anthropology of the Middle East /$fedited by Soraya Altorki 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex, England :$cWiley Blackwell,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (608 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell Companions to Anthropology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-47561-5 311 $a1-118-47567-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aA Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in the Middle East Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation in the Middle Eastern region and its relations with other areas of the world Features contributions by top experts in various Middle East anthropological specialties Features in-depth coverage of issues drawn from religion 410 0$aBlackwell companions to anthropology. 606 $aEthnology$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a306.0956 686 $aSOC002010$2bisacsh 702 $aAltorki$b Soraya 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796157903321 996 $aA Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East$92006587 997 $aUNINA