Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvii
Preface xviii
Part I Introduction: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues 1
1 Enduring Concerns, Resilient Tropes, and New Departures: Reading the Companion 3Deniz Kandiyoti
2 Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East 15Suad Joseph
3 Structure/Agency and the Anthropology of the Middle East 40Soraya Altorki
4 Reflections on the Politics of Middle East Studies 72Steven C. Caton
Part II Culture and Everyday Life 89
5 The Politics of Aesthetics in the Muslim Middle East 91Martin Stokes
6 Dreams and the Miraculous 107Amira Mittermaier
7 Refiguring Islam 125Nada Moumtaz
8 In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair 151Shahla Haeri
9 Trajectories of Gendered Labor 172Livia Wick
10 The Politics of Poetry 188J. Andrew Bush
Part III Social Relations and Social Movements 205
11 Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa 207Jessica Newman and Marcia C. Inhorn
12 From Rural Development to Environmental Anthropology 233Nicholas S. Hopkins
13 Displacement and Dispossession in the Middle East 249Dawn Chatty
14 Anthropology and Humanitarianism in the Middle East 262Ilana Feldman
15 Anthropologies of Middle Eastern Diasporas 282Paul A. Silverstein
16a The Invention of the Mizrahim 316Ella Shohat
16b The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement 329Ella Shohat
17 Social Movements and Revolution 338Zeina Zaatari
Part IV Law, Politics, and the State 361
18 Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context 363Hussein Ali Agrama
19 The Notion of Arab Culture and the “Colonial Present” 391Mayssoun Sukarieh
20 Rethinking Anthropology of Neoliberalism in the Middle East 411Julia Elyachar
21 “States of Aspiration”: Anthropology and New Questions for the Middle East 434Michelle Obeid
22 Rethinking the “Post-Ottoman”: Anatolian Armenians as an Ethnographic Perspective 452Hakem Al?]Rustom
23 Reframing the Middle Eastern City: Thoughts on New Research 480Kamran Asdar Ali
Part V Pop Culture and New Media 493
24 Middle Eastern Music and Popular Culture 495John Philip Rode Schaefer
25 New Media and Electronic Networks 509Mark Allen Peterson
Index 526