Social Anthropology in the Arab World

The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

Abdullah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi, Imed Melliti (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836951032 (ISBN)

Infos

There are ongoing efforts in anthropology to decolonise its history and give fairer space to marginalised traditions. This book examines the history and institutionalisation of anthropology in the Maghreb, the Mashreq and the Gulf, in an open and collaborative manner and from various perspectives. Its primary focus is two-fold: first, to reorient the anthropological focus towards studies conducted in the region, particularly on the conditions conducive to the institutionalisation of anthropological knowledge; second, to shed light on anthropological studies in languages other than English. offering different theoretical and epistemological perspectives.

Autor

Abdullah Alajmi is an associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Kuwait. He has published several articles on Hadrami migration in Kuwait and beyond.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration



Introduction: Social Anthropology in the Arab World: The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

Abdullah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti



Part I



Introduction

Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti



Chapter 1. Fanny Colonna and Anthropology in Algeria and the Maghreb

Loïc Le Pape



Chapter 2. Fieldwork Encounters and Reflexivity by Abdellah Hammoudi: Arab Anthropology as Alternative Episteme?

Fadma Ait Mous and Mohamed Sammouni



Chapter 3.The Trajectory of an Anthropologist at Home: Theoretical and Ethnographic Issues

Hassan Rachik



Chapter 4. Reflections on the Anthropologies of the Arab Gulf

Laure Assaf



Chapter 5. The Challenges of Anthropology in the Arab Gulf: Few Reflections on the Omani Case

Maho Sebiane



Chapter 6. Tracing Histories and Institutional Developments of Anthropology in Egypt

Amal Abdrabo and Daniele Cantini



Chapter 7. Anthropology in Tunisia: An Eventful History

Imed Melliti



Chapter 8. The History of Anthropology in Algeria – Weakly Anchored in Society

Aicha Benabed and Mohamed Mebtoul



Chapter 9. Anthropology in Morocco: The Double Absence

Zakaria Rhani



Part II



Introduction: Changes and Continuities in Research Topics

Abdullah Alajmi and Daniele Cantini



Chapter 10. ‘Narrative Sovereignty’? Anthropology, Language and the Politics of Research

Myriam Achour



Chapter 11. Anthropological Approaches to Islam

Daniele Cantini and Hassan Rachik



Chapter 12. Anthropology of Cities in the Arab Countries

Franck Mermier



Chapter 13. Anthropology and Ethnography of Migration: The Arab Gulf

Abdullah Alajmi



Chapter 14. Being Borrowed: Encounters of Collaborative and Creative Knowledge Production in Researching Migration to the Gulf

Farah Hallaba



Chapter 15. At the Margins of Cultural Memory: Obscuring Women in UAE Heritage, Historiography and Nationhood

Laila Prager



Chapter 16. The Emergence of Medicine and Health as Legitimate Objects of Research in Arab Anthropology

Irene Maffi and Saadia Radi



Chapter 17. Studying Trauma in Anthropology on the Arab World

Sarah El-Bulbeisi



Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9781836951032 / 9781836951032
• Zustand: Neuware