A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East.
Altorki, Soraya.
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (1578 pages) - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Series . - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Series .
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 East -- Part 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, Absences -- Class/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 East -- REFERENCES -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Stories, Work, and Questions -- The Emplotment of Labor -- Exhaustion -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: The Politics of Poetry -- Ethics: Poetry and Values -- Form: Politics of Non-Poetry -- Subjectivity: Plurality and Interdependence -- Recitation: Temporalities of Repetition -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- PART III: Social Relations and Social Movements -- CHAPTER 11: 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 -- Glossary of Acronyms -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 12: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15: Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas -- Diasporic Affiliation -- The Ethnographer's Task -- The Worlds (Not) Left Behind -- Diasporic Ecumene -- Abject Subjects and Flourishing Citizens -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16a: The Invention of the Mizrahim -- Islam, Mizrahim, and Zionist Historiography -- The Aporias of Nationalism -- The Making of Mizrahi Identity -- Reconceptualizing Identity: Toward Mizrahi Studies -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16b: The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement -- The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17: Social Movements and Revolution1. 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 -- New Social Movements-Collective Identity -- Conclusion -- Acronyms -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: Law, Politics, and the State -- CHAPTER 18: Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20: 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 -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 21: "States of Aspiration" -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 22: Rethinking the "Post-Ottoman" -- The Scope -- Intertwined Histories: The Balkans -- Overlapping Territories: The Kurds -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 23: Reframing the Middle Eastern City -- The Spatial Turn -- Smaller Towns -- The Gendered City -- The Politics of the Poor -- Land and Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PART V: Pop Culture and New Media -- CHAPTER 24: Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture -- Family Resemblances -- Anthropology in Middle Eastern Popular Culture and Music -- The People Demand Sustainable and Authentic Cultural Futures -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 25: New Media and Electronic Networks1 -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
9781118475652
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Electronic books.
DS58 .A384 2015
306.0956
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (1578 pages) - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Series . - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Series .
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 East -- Part 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, Absences -- Class/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 East -- REFERENCES -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Stories, Work, and Questions -- The Emplotment of Labor -- Exhaustion -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: The Politics of Poetry -- Ethics: Poetry and Values -- Form: Politics of Non-Poetry -- Subjectivity: Plurality and Interdependence -- Recitation: Temporalities of Repetition -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- PART III: Social Relations and Social Movements -- CHAPTER 11: 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 -- Glossary of Acronyms -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 12: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15: Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas -- Diasporic Affiliation -- The Ethnographer's Task -- The Worlds (Not) Left Behind -- Diasporic Ecumene -- Abject Subjects and Flourishing Citizens -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16a: The Invention of the Mizrahim -- Islam, Mizrahim, and Zionist Historiography -- The Aporias of Nationalism -- The Making of Mizrahi Identity -- Reconceptualizing Identity: Toward Mizrahi Studies -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16b: The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement -- The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17: Social Movements and Revolution1. 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 -- New Social Movements-Collective Identity -- Conclusion -- Acronyms -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: Law, Politics, and the State -- CHAPTER 18: Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19: 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 -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20: 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 -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 21: "States of Aspiration" -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 22: Rethinking the "Post-Ottoman" -- The Scope -- Intertwined Histories: The Balkans -- Overlapping Territories: The Kurds -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 23: Reframing the Middle Eastern City -- The Spatial Turn -- Smaller Towns -- The Gendered City -- The Politics of the Poor -- Land and Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PART V: Pop Culture and New Media -- CHAPTER 24: Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture -- Family Resemblances -- Anthropology in Middle Eastern Popular Culture and Music -- The People Demand Sustainable and Authentic Cultural Futures -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 25: New Media and Electronic Networks1 -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
9781118475652
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Electronic books.
DS58 .A384 2015
306.0956