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The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthrop – Form, Duration, Difference: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Autor Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2019
Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region's political, ethical, and intellectual concerns. The contributors to this volume are students of Paul Dresch, an anthropologist known for his incisive work on Yemeni tribalism and customary law. As they expand upon his ideas and insights, these essays ask questions that have long preoccupied anthropologists, such as how do place, point of view, and style combine to create viable bodies of knowledge; how is scholarship shaped by the historical context in which it is located; and why have duration and form become so problematic in the study of Middle Eastern societies? Special attention is given to understanding local terms, contested knowledge claims, what remains unseen and unsaid in social life, and to cultural patterns and practices that persist over long stretches of time, seeming to predate and outlast events. Ranging from Morocco to India, these essays offer critical but sensitive approaches to cultural difference and the distinctiveness of the anthropological project in the Middle East.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253043795
ISBN-10: 0253043794
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 2 Maps; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Seria Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa


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Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Left Hand of Knowledge / Judith Scheele and Andrew Shryock
1. Dialogues of Three: Making Sense of Patterns That Outlast Events / Andrew Shryock
2. Totality and Infinity: Sharia Ethnography in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke
3. A Mirror for Fieldworkers / Christa Salamandra
4. Who are the Taliban? The Deflection of Truth among Tribal Pashtun in Pakistan / Ammara Maqsood
5. Secrecy and Continuity in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky
6. The Place of Strangers in Moroccan Domesticity: Nostalgia, Secrets, and the Continuity of Scandal / Mary Montgomery
7. Claiming an Individual Name: Revisiting the Personhood Debate with Afghan Poets in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska
8. Segmentation versus Tyranny: Politics as Empirical Philosophy / Judith Scheele
9. The Republic of Precarity: 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, Trickster Politician / Walter Armbrust
10. Experience and Its Modes / Paul Dresch
References Cited
Index


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Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline.