Culture and Dignity : Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Indignities -- Naturalizing Difference and the Great Transformation -- Comparison, Ethnography, and History -- 2 From Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi to Edward Said -- Introduction -- Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi and France -- A Hundred Years Later: Edward Said -- Concluding Comments -- 3 Ethnography as Theory -- Introduction -- Unstated Consensus -- Defining Ethnographic Worth: 1896-2000 -- Ethnographic Audiences -- An Outsider Looking In on Anthropology's Ethnography -- Concluding Comments -- 4 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women -- Cultural Hierarchy and Processes of Control -- The Specificity of Eastern and Western Grids -- Positional Superiority, Thought Systems, and Other Cultures -- Ways of Seeing and Comparing - East and West -- The Controlling Role of Ideas -- The Use of Revolution in Gender Control -- Multiple Systems of Female Subordination -- Colonialism, Development, Religion, and Gender Control -- Conclusion: The Need to Separate Identities -- Acknowledgments -- 5 Corporate Fundamentalism -- Introduction -- Manufacturing Culture Bit by Bit -- Fundamentalisms: Corporate and Religious -- Marketing and Children: The United States -- Drugs, Commercialism, and the Biomedical Paradigm: An American Example -- When Corporate Profits and Education Meet: The Educational Testing Industry -- Fundamentalisms: Economic, Religious, Political -- Back to Corporate Fundamentalism: Future Directions -- 6 Culture and the Seeds of Nonviolence in the Middle East -- Introduction -- Disharmonic Westernization and Pilgrimage -- Between the Stereotype and Reality -- Little Worlds in the International Grip -- Culture and Nonviolence: Who Stands to Gain From Peace? -- Dignity Becomes Reality -- 7 Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues.

Introduction -- Early Constraints -- Unresolved Issues -- A Nonstate Human Rights Effort -- Health and Human Rights -- Human Rights and Commercialism -- Concluding Remarks -- 8 Breaking the Silence -- Introduction -- Silence and Dominant Hegemonies -- Desensitization -- Mistakes Repeated in the Iraq Invasion -- 9 Lessons -- Lessons Learned -- Strategies of Subordination - In Reverse -- Macro-histories -- Appendix: Laura Nader -- Index.

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