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In Search of Worldviews

What Anthropology Can Tell Us about the Middle East

Andrea B. Rugh

324 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-542-9 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-543-6 eBook Not Yet Published


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The Middle East currently dominates the news, often with misleading stories that cast local people as terrorists or oppressed. In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as women’s roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why democracy has difficulty taking hold, how minorities cope, and formal and informal methods of conflict resolution. It also helps us understand ourselves better when we know how other cultures address the same human problems. Using anthropological techniques such as participant observations, historic document research, and institutional analysis, each chapter of this book poses an important question about the Middle East with a focus on local perspectives.

Andrea B. Rugh lived for 25 years in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates, while conducting research and working on development projects for USAID, UNICEF, and Harvard University in South Asia, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. She is author of thirteen books on the Middle East, including Christians in Egypt (Dio Press Inc, 2015).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Development StudiesHistory (General)
Area: Middle East & Israel


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