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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.
“This is a timely, and significant work. The chapters in this book are diverse and cover a wide geographic context.” • Yasmine Moataz Ahmed, The American University in Cairo
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.
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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