A companion to the anthropology of the Middle East / / edited by Soraya Altorki

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.0956
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Middle East
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Social life and customs
• Classificazione: SOC002010
• Persona (resp. second.): AltorkiSoraya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East
• ISBN: 1-118-47572-0; 1-78684-361-7; 1-118-47565-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796157903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to anthropology.