Social Anthropology in the Arab World : The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alajmi, Abdullah.

Contributor:

Cantini, Daniele.

Maffi, Irene.

Melliti, Imed.

The Volkswagen Foundation, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Arab countries.

Ethnology.

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the history and institutionalisation of anthropology in the Maghreb, the Mashreq and the Gulf, in an open and collaborative manner and from various perspectives. It aims to reorient the anthropological focus towards studies conducted in the region and sheds light on anthropological studies in languages other than English offering different theoretical and epistemological perspectives.

Contents:

Cover

Social Anthropology in the Arab World

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction. Social Anthropology in the Arab World: The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Fanny Colonna and Anthropology in Algeria and the Maghreb

Chapter 2. Fieldwork Encounters and Reflexivity by Abdellah Hammoudi: Arab Anthropology as Alternative Episteme?

Chapter 3. The Trajectory of an Anthropologist at Home: Theoretical and Ethnographic Issues

Chapter 4. Reflections on the Anthropologies of the Arab Gulf

Chapter 5. The Challenges of Anthropology in the Arab Gulf: A Few Reflections on the Omani Case

Chapter 6. Tracing Histories and Institutional Developments of Anthropology in Egypt

Chapter 7. Anthropology in Tunisia: An Eventful History

Chapter 8. The History of Anthropology in Algeria: Weakly Anchored in Society

Chapter 9. Anthropology in Morocco: The Double Absence

Part II. Introduction: Changes and Continuities in Research Topics

Chapter 10. 'Narrative Sovereignty'? Anthropology, Language and the Politics of Research

Chapter 11. Anthropological Approaches to Islam

Chapter 12. Anthropology of Cities in Arab Countries

Chapter 13. Anthropology and Ethnography of Migration: The Arab Gulf

Chapter 14. Being Borrowed: Encounters of Collaborative and Creative Knowledge Production in Researching Migration to the Gulf

Chapter 15. At the Margins of Cultural Memory: Obscuring Women in UAE Heritage, Historiography and Nationhood

Chapter 16. The Emergence of Medicine and Health as Legitimate Objects of Research in Arab Anthropology

Chapter 17. Trauma Studies in the Arab World, and the Relation between Anthropology and Psychoanalysis

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-104-3

OCLC:

1528510608