Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253007534 ISBN 13: 9780253007537

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The waves of change sweeping the MENA compel social scientists and anthropologists in particular to move beyond local specificities and images of ‘untouched’ communities or Middle East exceptionalism to consider wider patterns of social and cultural change.... [The essays in this volume] reflect a commitment to ethnographic research informed by current discussions about the field of Middle East anthropology. All attempt to take stock of what anthropologists have and have not accomplished in their attempt to understand this region.from the foreword

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About the Author:

Sherine Hafez is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women’s Activism in Egypt and An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements.

Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village; editor of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco; Clifford Geertz in Morocco; and (with Barbara Rose Johnston) of Waging War and Making Peace: The Anthropology of Reparations.

Review:

The first attempt in many years to bring together anthropologists working in the Middle East and North Africa, and to publish their work together. The volume is unique and should have a wide readership in MENA anthropology and beyond. (Marcia C. Inhorn Yale University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0253007534
• ISBN 13: 9780253007537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Hafez Sherine, Slyomovics Susan