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Published August 2024 The State Otherwise
Green Space, Citizenship and Advocating for the Public in Beirut
Stefanelli, A.
The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to mobilise individuals and the role of public authorities in promoting the public good.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published July 2024
Lives in Limbo
Syrian Youth in Turkey
Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.
Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation’s future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2024
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State
Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923
Ülker, E.
In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published March 2024
Urban Displacement
Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)
Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2024
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962
Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday
Alp Özden, B.
Working Class Formation in Turkey explores the everyday practices of workers in Turkey from the End of War II to until just after the military interventions of 1960. Drawing a wide range of historical sources and moving beyond generalizations, this volume examines the contextual dynamics of the lives of Turkish workers during these critical decades.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2023
Continental Encampment
Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)
During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published October 2022
Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Tremayne, S.
This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2022
Bulldozer Capitalism
Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey
Evren, E.
Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.
Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published January 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)
Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)
Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.
Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published November 2020
Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2020
The Helmand Baluch
A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan
Amiri, G. R.
The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published July 2019
Shakespeare and the Arab World
Hennessey, K. & Litvin, M. (eds)
Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Argenti, N. (ed)
With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies
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Published December 2018
Germany and the Middle East
From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel
Steininger, R.
For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major developments of the twentieth century shaped its approach to the region.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2018
The Rite of Urban Passage
The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation
Masoudi, R.
Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2018
In the Best Interests of the Child
Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings
Mass, M.
Based on her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on adoption in Israel, and through four representative case studies, Mass examines the view that emphasizes the lifelong loss inflicted on the child by compulsory ‘closed’ adoption, contrasting it with the need to ‘free the child for adoption’ when parents are assessed as incapable.
Subject: Sociology
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Published January 2018
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East
Arab and Turkish Responses
Nicosia, F. R. & Ergene, B. A. (eds)
How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published May 2017
Let Them Not Return
Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)
While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2017
Daily Life in the Abyss
Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
Tachjian, V.
Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I
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Published February 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
Shirinian, G. N. (ed)
From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2016
Made In Egypt
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Chakravarti, L. Z.
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2016
Economic Citizenship
Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
Sa'ar, A.
Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2016
Having and Belonging
Homes and Museums in Israel
Jaffe-Schagen, J.
This book draws striking connections between the supposedly divergent spheres of home and museum, which both house objects and generate social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight Israeli communities, it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach for societies in conflict.
Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published March 2016
Post-Ottoman Coexistence
Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict
Bryant, R. (ed)
Scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates this “coexistence” and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
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Published October 2015
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East
Abu-Rabia, A.
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published July 2015
The Spirit of the Laws
The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
Akçam, T. & Kurt, U
Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I
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Published February 2015
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)
By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.
Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2014
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Geography
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Published April 2014
On the Path to Genocide
Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined
Mayersen, D.
“This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2014
Arab Spring
Uprisings, Powers, Interventions
Fosshagen, K. (ed)
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2013
Soldiering Under Occupation
Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Grassiani, E.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2013
Capricious Borders
Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
Demetriou, O.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Wesley, D.A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2012
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Hake, S. & Mennel, B. (eds)
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published August 2012
Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2012
The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East
Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula
Alayan, S., Rohde, A., & Dhouib, S. (eds)
Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology
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Published June 2012
Marginal At the Center
The Life Story of a Public Sociologist
Kimmerling, B.
Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies
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Published March 2012
Israeli Identities
Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other
Auron, Y.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology
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Published November 2011
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel
Liebelt, C.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2011
The Dream in Islam
From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration
Edgar, I. R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2010
Settling for Less
The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
Dinero, S. C.
Subjects: Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2010
The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Manger, L.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2010
Deterritorialized Youth
Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
Chatty, D. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published April 2010
Diamonds and War
State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
De Vries, D.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2010
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology
Past and Present Perspectives
Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published November 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa
Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands
Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)
Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa
Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya
Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)
Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2009
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Clarke, M.
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Reproducing Class
Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2008
Impotent Warriors
Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
Kilshaw, S.
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An Anthropology of War
Views from the Frontline
Waterston, A. (ed)
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Published July 2005
Documenting Transnational Migration
Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America
Antoun, R.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2004
Children and Youth on the Front Line
Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
Boyden, J. & Berry, J. de (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published June 2002
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation
Abdo, N. & Lentin, R. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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