1st Edition
The Mediterranean Redux Ethnography, Theory, Politics
Introduction: Remapping Mediterranean anthropology
Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Heath Cabot and Paul A. Silverstein
1. The Virgin Mary of Algeria: French Mediterraneans En Miroir
Susan Slyomovics
2. Pontremoli’s cry: Personhood, scale, and history in the Eastern Mediterranean
Joseph John Viscomi
3. The olive and imaginaries of the Mediterranean
Anne Meneley
4. Revisiting ‘honor’ through migrant vulnerabilities in Turkey
Ayşe Parla
5. Back to the Mediterranean? Return migration, economic crisis, and contested values in Southern Spain
Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar
6. Transidioma afloat: Communication, power, and migration in the Mediterranean Sea
Marco Jacquemet
Afterword
7. Rites of return: Back to the Mediterranean, again
Andrew Shryock
8. Reclaiming the Middle Sea for Humanity
Michael Herzfeld
Biography
Naor Ben-Yehoyada is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II. He writes on unauthorized migration, criminal justice, the aftermath of development, and transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean.
Paul Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, USA. He is author of Postcolonial France (2018) and Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation (2004). He writes on identity politics, postcoloniality, and diasporic popular culture in France and North Africa.
