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The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology - Form, Duration, Difference (Hardcover)
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The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology - Form, Duration, Difference (Hardcover)
Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
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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.
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