A companion to the anthropology of the Middle East /
"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"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2015.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to anthropology ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
- Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion / Deniz Kandiyoti
- Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East / Suad Joseph
- Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East / Soraya Altorki
- Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies / Steven C. Caton
- Part II. Culture and Everyday Life
- The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East / Martin Stokes
- Dreams and the Miraculous / Amira Mittermaier
- Refiguring Islam / Nada Moumtaz
- In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair / Shahla Haeri
- Trajectories of Gendered Labor / Livia Wick
- The Politics of Poetry / J. Andrew Bush
- Part III. Social Relations and Social Movements
- Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa / Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn
- From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology / Nicholas S. Hopkins
- Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty
- Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East / Ilana Feldman
- Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas / Paul A. Silverstein
- The Invention of the Mizrahim / Ella Shohat
- The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement / Ella Shohat
- Social Movements and Revolution / Zeina Zaatari
- Part IV. Law, Politics, and the State
- Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context / Hussein Ali Agrama
- The Notion of Arab Culture and the Colonial Present / Mayssoun Sukarieh
- Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East / Julia Elyachar
- States of Aspiration: Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East / Michelle Obeid
- Rethinking the Post-Ottoman: Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective / Hakem Al-Rustom
- Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research / Kamran Asdar Ali
- Part V. Pop Culture and New Media
- Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture / John Philip Rode Schaefer
- New Media and Electronic Networks / Mark Allen Peterson
- Index.
