TY - BOOK AU - Altorki,Soraya TI - A companion to the anthropology of the Middle East T2 - Blackwell companions to anthropology SN - 9781118475652 (ePub) AV - GN635.N42 U1 - 306.0956 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Ethnology KW - Middle East KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - Social Science KW - fast KW - Manners and customs KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters; Notes on Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Part I; Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues --; Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion; Deniz Kandiyoti --; Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East; Suad Joseph --; Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East; Soraya Altorki --; Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies; Steven C. Caton --; Part II; Culture and Everyday Life --; The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East; Martin Stokes --; Dreams and the Miraculous; Amira Mittermaier --; Refiguring Islam; Nada Moumtaz --; In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair; Shahla Haeri --; Trajectories of Gendered Labor; Livia Wick --; The Politics of Poetry; J. Andrew Bush --; Part III; Social Relations and Social Movements --; Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa; Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn --; From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology; Nicholas S. Hopkins --; Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East; Dawn Chatty --; Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East; Ilana Feldman --; Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas; Paul A. Silverstein --; The Invention of the Mizrahim; Ella Shohat --; The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement; Ella Shohat --; Social Movements and Revolution; Zeina Zaatari --; Part IV; Law, Politics, and the State --; Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context; Hussein Ali Agrama --; The Notion of Arab Culture and the "Colonial Present"; Mayssoun Sukarieh --; Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East; Julia Elyachar --; "States of Aspiration": Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East; Michelle Obeid --; Rethinking the "Post-Ottoman": Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective; Hakem Al-Rustom --; Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research; Kamran Asdar Ali --; Part V; Pop Culture and New Media --; Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture; John Philip Rode Schaefer --; New Media and Electronic Networks; Mark Allen Peterson --; Index; ssh N2 - "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"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118475683 ER -