Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium
Author(s): Sherine Hafez (Editor), Susan Slyomovics (Editor), Jon W. Anderson (Contributor), Paul A. Silverstein (Contributor), Nefissa Naguib (Contributor), Susanne Dahlgren (Contributor), Cortney L. Hughes (Contributor), Emilio Spadola (Contributor), Suad Joseph (Contributor), Dawn Chatty (Contributor), Sondra Hale (Contributor), Kim Shively (Contributor), Lara Deeb (Contributor), Christine Hegel-Cantarella (Contributor), Jessica Winegar (Contributor), Sebastian Maisel (Contributor), Charlotte Karagueuzian (Contributor), Pamela Chrabieh Badine (Contributor), Seteney Shami (Contributor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Date: 5 Jun. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 404 pages
ISBN-10: 0253007461
ISBN-13: 9780253007469
Book Description
This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[T]his volume is a valuable contribution to the general field of anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. . . . Recommended.
― Choice
This volume is a good addition to the anthropological body of work on the region.
― Social Anthropology
Spanning audiences of undergraduates, graduates and established researchers, this volume will be an extremely useful reference point for scholars of the MENA region, in anthropology and beyond.
― African Studies Bulletin
The volume, including its comprehensive bibliography, will benefit students of Middle East studies looking to see how anthropology contributes to the study of the region. Anthropology students will find theoretical topics germane not only to the region but also to broader anthropological conversations. Readers will also enjoy the fine ethnography that drives these major theoretical trajectories in the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa.
― Review of Middle East Studies
Anthropology of the Middle East is a remarkable contribution to the field.
― Anthropology of Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia
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
Book Description
A state-of-the-art assessment of recent scholarship
From 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.
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.
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.
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