| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2015001074 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781118475614 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
306.0956 CO MP |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A companion to the anthropology of the Middle East / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Edited by Soraya Altorki |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell, |
| Date |
c2015. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxv, 542 p. ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology |
| CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Notes 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 3 Deniz Kandiyoti 2 Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East 15 Suad Joseph 3 Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East 40 Soraya Altorki 4 Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies 72 Steven C. Caton Part II Culture and Everyday Life 89 5 The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East 91 Martin Stokes 6 Dreams and the Miraculous 107 Amira Mittermaier 7 Refiguring Islam 125 Nada Moumtaz 8 In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair 151 Shahla Haeri 9 Trajectories of Gendered Labor 172 Livia Wick 10 The Politics of Poetry 188 J. Andrew Bush Part III Social Relations and Social Movements 205 11 Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa 207 Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn 12 From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology 233 Nicholas S. Hopkins 13 Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East 249 Dawn Chatty 14 Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East 262 Ilana Feldman 15 Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas 282 Paul A. Silverstein 16a The Invention of the Mizrahim 316 Ella Shohat 16b The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement 329 Ella Shohat 17 Social Movements and Revolution 338 Zeina Zaatari Part IV Law, Politics, and the State 361 18 Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context 363 Hussein Ali Agrama 19 The Notion of Arab Culture and the "Colonial Present" 391 Mayssoun Sukarieh 20 Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East 411 Julia Elyachar 21 "States of Aspiration": Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East 434 Michelle Obeid 22 Rethinking the "Post?]Ottoman": Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective 452 Hakem Al?]Rustom 23 Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research 480 Kamran Asdar Ali Part V Pop Culture and New Media 493 24 Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture 495 John Philip Rode Schaefer 25 New Media and Electronic Networks 509 Mark Allen Peterson Index 526 . |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
"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"-- |
| STUDY PROGRAM |
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| Program name |
MIST 906, MIST966 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Ethnology |
| Form |
Middle East |
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| Topical Heading |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural |
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| Name |
Altorki, Soraya, |
| Role |
Edited by |
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https://uowd.box.com/s/k78aqq08661ow064bal9f13f0y25k0ma |
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Location Map |
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