LEADER 04062nam 2200397 450 001 9910831178903321 005 20231006191651.0 010 $a1-118-47568-2 035 $a(CKB)3860000000009945 035 $a(NjHacI)993860000000009945 035 $a(EXLCZ)993860000000009945 100 $a20231006d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East /$fedited by Soraya Altorki 210 1$aNew York, NY, :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (608 pages) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to anthropology ;$v27 300 $aIncludes index. 327 $aNotes 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 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 "PostOttoman": Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective 452Hakem AlRustom 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. 330 $aA Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East.Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in the Middle East Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation in the Middle Eastern region and its relations with other areas of the world Features contributions by top experts in various Middle East anthropological specialties Features in-depth coverage of issues drawn from religion, the arts, language, politics, political economy, the law, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization. 410 0$aBlackwell companions to anthropology ;$v27. 606 $aEthnology$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a306.0956 702 $aAltorki$b Soraya 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831178903321 996 $aA companion to the anthropology of the Middle East$93993870 997 $aUNINA