Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

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.

[T]his volume is a valuable contribution to the general field of anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. . . . Recommended.(Choice) This volume is a good addition to the anthropological body of work on the region.(Social Anthropology) Spanning audiences of undergraduates, graduates and established researchers, this volume will be an extremely useful reference point for scholars of the MENA region, in anthropology and beyond.(African Studies Bulletin) The volume, including its comprehensive bibliography, will benefit students of Middle East studies looking to see how anthropology contributes to the study of the region. Anthropology students will find theoretical topics germane not only to the region but also to broader anthropological conversations. Readers will also enjoy the fine ethnography that drives these major theoretical trajectories in the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa.(Review of Middle East Studies) Anthropology of the Middle East is a remarkable contribution to the field.(Anthropology of Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia)

• Introduction: Power and Knowledge in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Sherine Hafez and Susan SlyomovicsPart 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 Africa Susan Slyomovics2. Identity and Difference in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review Essay Seteney Shami and Nefissa Naguib3. Anthropology's Middle Eastern Prehistory: An Archaeology of Knowledge Jon W. Anderson4. The Pragmatics and Politics of Anthropological Collaboration on the North African Frontier Paul A. Silverstein5. Post-Cold War Politics of Middle East Anthropology: Insights from a Transitional Generation Confronting the War on Terror Lara Deeb and Jessica WinegarPart II. Subjectivities: Youth, Gender, Family and Tribe in the Middle East and North African Nation-State6. Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the State Suad Joseph7. The Memory Work of Anthropologists: Gendered Studies of Conflicts and the "Heroic Life" in Middle East and North Africa Sondra Hale8. Rejecting Authenticity in the Desert Landscapes of the Modern Middle East: Development Processes in the Jiddat il-Harasiis, Oman Dawn Chatty9. Notable Families and Capitalist Parasites in Egypt's Former Free Zone: Law, Trade, and Uncertainty Christine Hegel-CantarellaPart 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 Religion Sherine Hafez11. Defining and Enforcing Islam in Secular Turkey Kim Shively12. Sharia in Diaspora: Displacement, Exclusion and Anthropology of the Displaced Middle East Susanne Dahlgren13. A Place to Belong: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Contraceptive Practices in Morocco Cortney L. HughesPart 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 March Emilio Spadola15. The Construction of Virtual Identities: On-line Tribalism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond Sebastian Maisel16. Youth, Peace, and New Media in the Middle East Charlotte Karagueuzian and Pamela Chrabieh BadineReferencesContributorsIndex