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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King  
Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new...
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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...
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments Rarely have anthropologists regarded fieldwork as a serious object of study, although it is tacitly accepted as their major activity. How valid is the process? To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and...
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lila Abu Lughod Synopsis A beautifully-written--almost poetic--ethnography of the Bedouins in Egypt as well as a study of gender relations through analysis of their oral lyric poetry....
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The Poetics of Military Occupation
by Smadar Lavie Publisher Comments The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under...
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Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa
by Andrew Apter Publisher Comments Even within anthropology, a discipline that strives to overcome misrepresentations of peoples and cultures, colonialist depictions of the so-called Dark Continent run deep. The grand narratives, tribal tropes, distorted images, and “natural”...
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In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
by John Ure Publisher Comments For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfettered...
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Collection Alea-Saclay #85: Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
by Alan Barnard Publisher Comments The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders" (in the past called "Hottentots"), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalihari desert and...
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In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
by David A Mcmurray Synopsis 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...
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Popular Culture in the Arab World: Arts, Politics, and the Media
by Andrew Hammond Publisher Comments Over the last fifty years the Arab world has witnessed two seemingly contradictory trends: governments have failed to unite the region politically but at the same time a vibrant popular culture has blossomed, strengthening the sense of a shared Arab...
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index....
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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....
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In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
by John Ure Publisher Comments For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfettered...
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Markets of Dispossession
by Julia Elyachar Publisher Comments What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor...
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The Munshidin of Egypt: their world and their song
by Earle H Waugh Book News Annotation On the Sufi Singers, whose praises to Allah and the Prophet form a critical element in Sufi religious practice and tradition. The book examines their training, their activities and their concerns while exploring the meanings and traditions inherent in...
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Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and in Vitro Fertilization in Egypt
by Marcia C Inhorn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302) and index....
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Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society
by Soraya Altorki Book News Annotation For the first time, Arab women researchers perform field work in their own societies and discuss the experience. As a group, they also provide an excellent overview of the issues involved in a number of different Arab communities: Lebanon, Saudi...
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Islamic Society in Practice
by Carol Fluehr Lobban Synopsis 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....
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor & Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lil Abu Lughod Publisher Comments 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. The poems are haunting, the evocation...
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Gender and Culture (Ppr)
by Melford E. Spiro Book News Annotation Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, this volume discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work as they evolved over a 25-year period. Originally published in 1979 by Duke U. Press, the present...
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