A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East

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. Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in...

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1. Verfasser: Altorki, Soraya 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken : Wiley, 2015
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Schlagworte:Ethnology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Electronic books Manners and customs Middle East SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
Umfang:Online-Ressource (1578 p)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Title page; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; REFERENCES; A Note on the Transliteration of Middle Eastern Language Words, Terms, and Expressions; PART I: Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues; CHAPTER 1: Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures; 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; REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 2: Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle EastPart I Locating the Middle East in Anthropology; Part II Middle East Anthropology Theory and Thematics-Late 1970s to 2014; The Middle East Unbounded; An Anthropology of Islam; Women and Gender; Queer Studies and Sexualities; State/Citizenship/Civil Society/Law/Political Movements, and Institutions; Wars, Revolutions, Violence, Neoliberalism; Urban Studies; Family Studies: Rethinking the "P's"-Women/Gender/Masculinity/Femininity; Performance, Media Studies, and Reflexivity; Science and Technology Studies; The Historical Turn
  • Part III Lacuna, Silences, AbsencesClass/Division of Labor/Economies/Women and Work/the Market/Neoliberalism; Race, Racialization; Social/Political Movements/Everyday Politics/Everyday State; Arab Families; Youth, Children, and Socialization; Intentionality/Subjectivity; Intersectionalities and Sexualities; The Global Middle East in Western Europe and the Rest; Part IV Next Generation of Middle East Anthropologists; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: 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 EastREFERENCES; Contentious Collective Action; CHAPTER 4: Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies; REFERENCES; PART II: Culture and Everyday Life; CHAPTER 5: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6: 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; REFERENCES; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 7: Refiguring Islam
  • Islamic Tradition: Theoretical InterventionEarly 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; REFERENCES; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 8: In the Garden of the Sexes; A Cosmic Gender Encounter; The Breach: Patriarchy, Power, and Gender; The Crisis: Garden Contested; Redressive Action; Arranging a Marriage?; Reintegration: Garden Appropriated; Some Reflections; REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 9: Trajectories of Gendered Labor