Middle East Anthropology Books

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1. Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past

   By Craig Larkin

   This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population has learnt to cope. The author explores the efforts of those who wish to forget and those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past mistakes, shedding new light on trauma and the persistence of ethnic...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58779-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today

   Edited by Keiko Sakurai, Fariba Adelkhah

   The revival of madrasas in the 1980s coincided with the rise of political Islam and soon became associated with the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society within...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-58988-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and community

   By Esmail Nashif

   Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-58933-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency

   By Zeina B. Ghandour

   British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic ‘native question’, and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-48993-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict

   Edited by Philip Carl Salzman, Donna Robinson Divine

   Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, ‘the other,’ particularly our negative ideas about...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-49576-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings

   Edited by Geoffrey Nash, Daniel O'Donoghue

   Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi...

   2008 | 978-0-415-44019-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Syria's Kurds: History, Politics and Society

   By Jordi Tejel

   This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the articulation between tribal, local, regional,...

   2008 | 978-0-415-42440-0 | Hardback (Routledge)