A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East
Editor/Author
Altorki, Soraya
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
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$195.00

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$292.50
ISBN: 978-1-11-847561-4
Category: Social Sciences - Anthropology
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6
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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. Featuring contributions from a wide range of distinguished contemporary scholars of Middle East anthropology, chapters encompass the entire breadth of the regions cultural, social, political, and religious diversity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
- Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion
- 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
- 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
- Part III Lacuna, Silences, Absences
- Part IV Next Generation of Middle East Anthropologists
- 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
- Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies
- Culture and Everyday Life
- The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East
- 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
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair
- A Cosmic Gender Encounter
- The Breach: Patriarchy, Power, and Gender
- The Crisis: Garden Contested
- Redressive Action; Arranging a Marriage?
- Reintegration: Garden Appropriated
- Some Reflections
- Trajectories of Gendered Labor
- Stories, Work, and Questions
- The Emplotment of Labor
- Exhaustion
- Conclusion
- The Politics of Poetry
- Ethics: Poetry and Values
- Form: Politics of Non-Poetry
- Subjectivity: Plurality and Interdependence
- Recitation: Temporalities of Repetition
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Social Relations and Social Movements
- Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa
- Introduction
- Competing Medical Systems
- The Anthropology of Reproduction
- The Biotechnological Turn: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
- Religion and Bioethics
- Future Directions
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Acronyms
- From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology
- Rural Development
- Rural Development and Agricultural Development
- Middle East Ecology
- Mode of Production
- Testour and Ghanima
- Musha
- Water and Development in Central Tunisia
- Morocco's Eastern Province (Oriental)
- Sustainability and Environmental Threats
- Water-Borne Pollution (Blue Agenda)
- Broad Issues
- Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East
- Origins of the Field of Displacement and Forced Migration Studies
- Critical Anthropological Concepts in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- Classic Studies of People Who Have Been Forced to Move in the Middle East
- Anthropology of Forced Migration in the Contemporary Middle East: Recalling the Past
- Conclusion
- Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East
- Themes in the Anthropology of Humanitarianism
- Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Action
- Humanitarian Worlds
- Humanitarianism in the Middle East
- The Case of Palestine
- New Directions in Humanitarian Practice and Research: Islamic Humanitarianism
- Conclusion
- Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas
- Diasporic Affiliation
- The Ethnographer's Task
- The Worlds (Not) Left Behind
- Diasporic Ecumene
- Abject Subjects and Flourishing Citizens
- Conclusion
- The Invention of the Mizrahim
- Islam, Mizrahim, and Zionist Historiography
- The Aporias of Nationalism
- The Making of Mizrahi Identity
- Reconceptualizing Identity: Toward Mizrahi Studies
- The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement
- The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement
- Social Movements and Revolution
- What are Social Movements? Theoretical Trends
- Debates in Social Movement Theorizing
- Anthropology and Social Movements
- Social Movements and the MENA: Debates and Questions
- Protest Movements, Public Mobilizations, and Revolutions
- Post-2010 Uprisings in MENA—the so-called Arab Spring
- New Social Movements—Collective Identity
- Conclusion
- Acronyms
- Law, Politics, and the State
- Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context
- Introduction: A Framing of the Question
- Justice from the Standpoint of Action
- Presuppositions and Styles of Judging
- The Problem of Violence for Justice in Liberal Law
- Some Preliminary Observations on ‘Adl
- Notes on Nineteenth-Century Transformations of ‘Adl
- Comparison
- Concluding Thoughts
- The Notion of Arab Culture and the “Colonial Present”
- Introduction
- Colonialism, Culture, and Development: Literature Review
- Development in Aqaba
- Culture as Impediment
- Culture as Asset
- Culture as Business
- Culture as Political Ideology
- Culturalization of the Economy
- Resistance from Below
- Conclusion
- Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East
- Anthropologies of Neoliberalism in the Middle East
- Neoliberalism and the Origins of Market Society
- Anthropology of Value, Markets, and Violence in Africa and the Middle East
- A World without Price: Value, Visibility, and the Calculation Debate
- Rationality and the Market: Rethinking the Gift and the Market
- Finance, Banks, and Creation of the Public Sector
- Invisible and Tacit Knowledge just before Neoliberalism
- The Calculation Debate Comes to Egypt
- Economic Anthropology of the Middle East
- Making Market Society after Iraq
- Acknowledgments
- “States of Aspiration”: Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East
- Where Is the State? (Ayna al-dawla?)
- Between Welfare and Domination: State–Society Relations
- States of Aspiration: Hope and Desire for the State
- New Anthropologies of the State in the Middle East
- Acknowledgments
- Rethinking the “Post-Ottoman”: Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective
- The Scope
- Intertwined Histories: The Balkans
- Overlapping Territories: The Kurds
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research
- The Spatial Turn
- Smaller Towns
- The Gendered City
- The Politics of the Poor
- Land and Infrastructure
- Conclusion
- Pop Culture and New Media
- Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture
- Family Resemblances
- Anthropology in Middle Eastern Popular Culture and Music
- The People Demand Sustainable and Authentic Cultural Futures
- New Media and Electronic Networks
- Media Practices and the Arab Uprisings
- What Makes Media “New”?
- Media Ecologies
- Changing Media Practices
- Nations, Nationalism, and New Media
- Global Networks and Diasporas
- Conclusion