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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu Lughod Publisher Comments Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Watch and Pray: A Portrait of Fante Village Life in Transition (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Nancy Lundgren Publisher Comments The matrilineal Fante are members of one of the most populous ethnic groups in Ghana, the Akan. They are the dominant group in the Cape Coast area and have a long history in the region. They are Fanti speakers, but also speak the national language, which... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City by Paula Holmes Eber Publisher Comments Daughters of Tunis is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women’s survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Publisher Comments This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Imagined Geography: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America (Contemporary Ethnography) by Joann D Dalisera Publisher Comments In "An Imagined Geography", anthropologist JoAnn D'Alisera demonstrates persuasively that the long-held anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, and unique communities, geographically located and neatly localized, must be reconsidered in light of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin by John Ure Publisher Comments Centering on four regions that are rich in nomadic culture, Ure enlists skill and humor as he delves into a lifestyle that has long tapped into the wanderlust within settled peoples in the West.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East: Second Edition (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) by Donna Lee Bowen Publisher Comments A] timely, well-researched and written analysis of popular and private life that is too often underestimated or overlooked yet which constitutes the majority of human existence in a region too often viewed from the narrow constraints of the state and its... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt: A Study of Spirit Possession by Hans Alexan Winkler Publisher Comments In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a spirit medium named Abdel Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. Abdel Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David A Mcmurray Publisher Comments Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco (Contemporary Ethnography) by Rachel Newcomb Publisher Comments Throughout its history, Morocco has maintained a distinctive sense of identity. Its name conjures up visions of carpets and Casablanca, mint tea and the Marrakech Express, associations that are not entirely dispelled by visits to the country. However, in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam, Gender, and Development: Rural-Urban Migration of Women in Iran by Masoumeh Velayati Publisher Comments In this fascinating study examining one of the poorest urban slums in Iran, Masoumeh Velayati explores the cultural, social, and economic factors that contribute to the migration of women from rural to urban locations in Iran and the consequences of... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $50.00 Used - Hardcover
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University of Cambridge Oriental Publications #74: Bartered Brides by Nancy Tapper Publisher Comments Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive... (read more) List Price $186.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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My Cousin, My Husband: Clans and Kinship in Mediterranean Societies (Saqi Essentials) by Germaine Tillion Publisher Comments In this classic work, Germaine Tillion argues that the phenomenon of men killing their daughters, sisters, and wives over matters of sexual honor is not an aberration specific to Islam. Rather, it is part of a pagan Mediterranean legacy of marriage... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court (Language & Legal Discourse) by Susan F Hirsch Publisher Comments The title of Susan Hirsch's study of disputes involving Swahili Muslims in coastal Kenya reflects the image of gender relations most commonly associated with Islamic law. Men need only "pronounce" divorce to resolve marital conflicts, while embattled and... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video by Jane E Goodman Publisher Comments S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music scholars to specialists on North Africa.... a superb book, clearly written, analytically incisive, about very important issues that have not been described elsewhere. --John Bowen,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry by Israel Drori Publisher Comments Many Arab communities in Israel’s Galilee region are home to export-oriented textile factories, owned by multinational corporations, whose Jewish managers employ local Arab and Druse women as seamstresses and low-level work supervisors. Based on five... (read more) Your price: $24.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Islamic Society in Practice by Carol Fluehr Lobban Publisher Comments The complicated relations and associated tension between the West and Christianity and the Arab world and Islam are deeply rooted in history and have been marked by political and cultural struggles often waged in the name of religion.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 1961-1964 by Nicholas S. Hopkins And Sohair R. Mehanna Publisher Comments In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $23.11 New - Hardcover
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