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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Power and Knowledge in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North AfricaSherine Hafez and Susan Slyomovics
Part I. Knowledge Production in Middle East and North Africa Anthropology
1. State of the State of the Art Studies: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East and North AfricaSusan Slyomovics
2. Identity and Difference in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review EssaySeteney Shami and Nefissa Naguib
3. Anthropology's Middle Eastern Prehistory: An Archaeology of KnowledgeJon W. Anderson
4. The Pragmatics and Politics of Anthropological Collaboration on the North African FrontierPaul A. Silverstein
5. Post-Cold War Politics of Middle East Anthropology: Insights from a Transitional Generation Confronting the War on TerrorLara Deeb and Jessica Winegar
Part II. Subjectivities: Youth, Gender, Family and Tribe in the Middle East and North African Nation-State
6. Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the StateSuad Joseph
7. The Memory Work of Anthropologists: Gendered Studies of Conflicts and the "Heroic Life" in Middle East and North AfricaSondra Hale
8. Rejecting Authenticity in the Desert Landscapes of the Modern Middle East: Development Processes in the Jiddat il-Harasiis, OmanDawn Chatty
9. Notable Families and Capitalist Parasites in Egypt's Former Free Zone: Law, Trade, and UncertaintyChristine Hegel-Cantarella
Part III: Anthropology of Religion and Secularism in the Middle East and North Africa
10. Will the Rational Religious Subject Please Stand Up? Muslim Subjects and the Analytics of ReligionSherine Hafez
11. Defining and Enforcing Islam in Secular TurkeyKim Shively
12. Sharia in Diaspora: Displacement, Exclusion and Anthropology of the Displaced Middle East Susanne Dahlgren
13. A Place to Belong: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Contraceptive Practices in MoroccoCortney L. Hughes
Part IV: Anthropology and New Media in the Virtual Middle East and North Africa
14. "Our Master's Call": Mass Media and the People in Morocco's 1975 Green MarchEmilio Spadola
15. The Construction of Virtual Identities: On-line Tribalism in Saudi Arabia and BeyondSebastian Maisel
16. Youth, Peace, and New Media in the Middle EastCharlotte Karagueuzian and Pamela Chrabieh Badine
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Contributors
Index
About the author
edited by Sherine Hafez, Susan Slyomovics, with contributions by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine
Summary
Addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge
