ISBN:
9780253043795
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9780253043764
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 294 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Keywords:
Segmentierte Gesellschaft
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Rechtsanwendung
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Islam
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Arabische Staaten
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Mittlerer Osten
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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MENA-Region
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Ethnologie
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Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
« 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 developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region's political, ethical, and intellectual concerns. The contributors to this volume are students of Paul Dresch, an anthropologist known for his incisive work on Yemeni tribalism and customary law. As they expand upon his ideas and insights, these essays ask questions that have long preoccupied anthropologists, such as how do place, point of view, and style combine to create viable bodies of knowledge; how is scholarship shaped by the historical context in which it is located; and why have duration and form become so problematic in the study of Middle Eastern societies? Special attention is given to understanding local terms, contested knowledge claims, what remains unseen and unsaid in social life, and to cultural patterns and practices that persist over long stretches of time, seeming to predate and outlast events. Ranging from Morocco to India, these essays offer critical but sensitive approaches to cultural difference and the distinctiveness of the anthropological project in the Middle East. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)
Note:
Literaturhinweise, Register
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"This book is the result of a two-day workshop, "People versus Humankind", held at All Souls College, Oxford ..." (Acknowledgements)
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Introduction: On the Left Hand of Knowledge
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1. Dialogues of Three : Making Sense of Patterns That Outlast Events
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2. Totality and Infinity : Sharia Ethnography in Lebanon
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3. A Mirror for Fieldworkers
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4. Who are the Taliban? : The Deflection of Truth among Tribal Pashtun in Pakistan
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5. Secrecy and Continuity in Rajasthan
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6. The Place of Strangers in Moroccan Domesticity : Nostalgia, Secrets, and the Continuity of Scandal
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7. Claiming an Individual Name : Revisiting the Personhood Debate with Afghan Poets in Iran
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8. Segmentation versus Tyranny : Politics as Empirical Philosophy
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9. The Republic of Precarity : 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, Trickster Politician
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10. Experience and Its Modes
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