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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. "The first attempt in many years to bring together anthropologists working in the Middle East and North Africa, and to publish their work together. The volume is unique and should have a wide readership in MENA anthropology and beyond." --Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University--Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University Zusammenfassung Addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Medi...
