05076cam a2200733 i 4500 ocn907811492 OCoLC 20171025082841.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 150420s2015 nju o 001 0 eng 2015015783 9781118475652 (ePub) 1118475658 (ePub) 9781118475676 (Adobe PDF) 1118475674 (Adobe PDF) 9781118475614 (hardback) 9781118475683 1118475682 EB00610998 Recorded Books NZ1 16093615 GBVCP 829895213 DEBBG BV043397723 (OCoLC)907811492 (OCoLC)909902068 (OCoLC)910670570 DLC eng rda DLC IDEBK EBLCP DG1 N$T E7B YDXCP RECBK CDX OCLCF DOS DEBBG pcc aw----- MAIN GN635.N42 GN635.N42 C66 2015eb POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306.0956 23 SOC002010 bisacsh A companion to the anthropology of the Middle East / edited by Soraya Altorki. [electronic resource] 1506 Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 1 online resource (xxv, 542 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 27 Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters. 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. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Ethnology Middle East. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. bisacsh Social Science. Ethnology. fast (OCoLC)fst00916106 Manners and customs. fast (OCoLC)fst01007815 Middle East Social life and customs. Middle East. fast (OCoLC)fst01241586 Electronic book. Electronic books. Electronic books. Altorki, Soraya, editor. Print version: Companion to the anthropology of the Middle East. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 9781118475614 (DLC) 2015001074 (OCoLC)895728377 Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 27. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118475683 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 207988 207988