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Social Anthropology in the Arab World
The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline
Edited by Abdallah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti
Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from The Volkswagen Foundation.
384 pages, 9 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-103-2 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (August 2025)
Reviews
“This is a timely, and significant work. The chapters in this book are diverse and cover a wide geographic context.” Yasmine Moataz Ahmed, The American University in Cairo
Description
There are ongoing efforts in anthropology to decolonise its history and give fairer space to marginalised traditions. 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. Its primary focus is two-fold: first, to reorient the anthropological focus towards studies conducted in the region, particularly on the conditions conducive to the institutionalisation of anthropological knowledge; second, to shed light on anthropological studies in languages other than English. offering different theoretical and epistemological perspectives.
Abdullah Alajmi is an associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Kuwait. He has published several articles on Hadrami migration in Kuwait and beyond.
Daniele Cantini is a fellow at the Global Development Network and affiliated researcher at the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His most recent publication is an edited volume, Bounded Knowledge: Doctoral Studies in Egypt, (American University in Cairo Press, 2021).
Irene Maffi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne. She authored Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. Medicine, Politics and Morality(Berghahn Books, 2020).
Imed Melliti is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Tunis El-Manar and Honorary President of the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF).
Subject: Anthropology (General)Sociology
Social Anthropology in the Arab World Edited by Abdallah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti is available as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from The Volkswagen Foundation.
OA ISBN: 978-1-83695-104-9