{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-continuity-in-middle-east-anthrop-form-duration-difference-9780253043764","title":"The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthrop","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Continuity' includes the ideas and practice of kinship, tribe, lineage, and moral authority that continue to underlie on shared values that are not just global or local, but that encompass much in between. It is good to think with.\"—Dale F. Eickelman, author of \u003ci\u003eMuslim Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highlights the severely underappreciated theoretical productivity of work in Middle East anthropology. This is an exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought.\"—Gregory Starrett, editor (with Eleanor Abdella Doumato) of \u003ci\u003eTeaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On the Left Hand of Knowledge \/ Judith Scheele and Andrew Shryock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Dialogues of Three: Making Sense of Patterns That Outlast Events \/ Andrew Shryock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Totality and Infinity: Sharia Ethnography in Lebanon \/ Morgan Clarke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Mirror for Fieldworkers \/ Christa Salamandra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Who are the Taliban? The Deflection of Truth among Tribal Pashtun in Pakistan \/ Ammara Maqsood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Secrecy and Continuity in Rajasthan \/ Anastasia Piliavsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Place of Strangers in Moroccan Domesticity: Nostalgia, Secrets, and the Continuity of Scandal \/ Mary Montgomery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Claiming an Individual Name: Revisiting the Personhood Debate with Afghan Poets in Iran \/ Zuzanna Olszewska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Segmentation versus Tyranny: Politics as Empirical Philosophy \/ Judith Scheele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. The Republic of Precarity: 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, Trickster Politician \/ Walter Armbrust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Experience and Its Modes \/ Paul Dresch \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400594039127,"sku":"9780253043764","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253043764.jpg?v=1730471060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-continuity-in-middle-east-anthrop-form-duration-difference-9780253043764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}