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The scandal of continuity in Middle East anthropology : form, duration, difference /
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 de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dialogues of three: making sense of patterns that outlast events / Andrew Shryock
- Totality and infinity: Sharia ethnography in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke
- A mirror for fieldworkers / Christa Salamandra
- Who are the Taliban? The deflection of truth among tribal Pashtuns in Pakistan / Ammara Maqsood
- Secrecy and continuity in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky
- The place of strangers in Moroccan domesticity: nostalgia, secrets, and the continuity of scandal / Mary Montgomery
- Claiming an individual name: revisiting the personhood debate with Afghan poets in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska
- Segmentation versus tyranny: politics as empirical philosophy / Judith Scheele
- The republic of precarity: 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, trickster politician / Walter Armbrust