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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: companion to the anthropology of the Middle East
  name:
    name part: Altorki, Soraya
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic book.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 542 pages).
  abstract: "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"--
  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 -…
  note: edited by Soraya Altorki.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
  classification: GN635.N42
  classification: GN635.N42 C66 2015eb
  classification: 306.0956
  classification: SOC002010
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    title info:
      title: Companion to the anthropology of the Middle East
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
    identifier: (DLC) 2015001074
    identifier: (OCoLC)895728377
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 27
  identifier: 9781118475652 (ePub)
  identifier: 1118475658 (ePub)
  identifier: 9781118475676 (Adobe PDF)
  identifier: 1118475674 (Adobe PDF)
  identifier: 9781118475614 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781118475683
  identifier: 1118475682
  identifier: 2015015783
  identifier: EB00610998 Recorded Books
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118475683
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150420
    record change date: 20170124065915.4
    record identifier: ocn907811492
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng