Social Anthropology in the Arab World : The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

• Autore: Alajmi Abdullah
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.09174927
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Arab countries; Anthropology - History
• Altri autori: CantiniDaniele MaffiIrene MellitiImed
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Social Anthropology in the Arab World -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction. Social Anthropology in the Arab World: The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fanny Colonna and Anthropology in Algeria and the Maghreb -- Chapter 2. Fieldwork Encounters and Reflexivity by Abdellah Hammoudi: Arab Anthropology as Alternative Episteme? -- Chapter 3. The Trajectory of an Anthropologist at Home: Theoretical and Ethnographic Issues -- Chapter 4. Reflections on the Anthropologies of the Arab Gulf -- Chapter 5. The Challenges of Anthropology in the Arab Gulf: A Few Reflections on the Omani Case -- Chapter 6. Tracing Histories and Institutional Developments of Anthropology in Egypt -- Chapter 7. Anthropology in Tunisia: An Eventful History -- Chapter 8. The History of Anthropology in Algeria: Weakly Anchored in Society -- Chapter 9. Anthropology in Morocco: The Double Absence -- Part II. Introduction: Changes and Continuities in Research Topics -- Chapter 10. 'Narrative Sovereignty'? Anthropology, Language and the Politics of Research -- Chapter 11. Anthropological Approaches to Islam -- Chapter 12. Anthropology of Cities in Arab Countries -- Chapter 13. Anthropology and Ethnography of Migration: The Arab Gulf -- Chapter 14. Being Borrowed: Encounters of Collaborative and Creative Knowledge Production in Researching Migration to the Gulf -- Chapter 15. At the Margins of Cultural Memory: Obscuring Women in UAE Heritage, Historiography and Nationhood -- Chapter 16. The Emergence of Medicine and Health as Legitimate Objects of Research in Arab Anthropology -- Chapter 17. Trauma Studies in the Arab World, and the Relation between Anthropology and Psychoanalysis -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the history and institutionalisation of anthropology in the Maghreb, the Mashreq and the Gulf, in an open and collaborative manner and from various perspectives. It aims to reorient the anthropological focus towards studies conducted in the region and sheds light on anthropological studies in languages other than English offering different theoretical and epistemological perspectives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Social Anthropology in the Arab World
• ISBN: 1-83695-104-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996670477903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno