Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Into the New Millennium

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.

Summary

Addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge

Product details

• Authors: Sherine Hafez, Sherine Slyomovics Hafez, Susan Slyomovics
• Assisted by: Sherine Hafez (Editor), Susan Slyomovics (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.06.2013
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780253007537
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00753-7
• Pages: 404
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle; Indiana University Press (IPS)