The Middle East and Central Asia : an anthropological approach
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The Middle East and Central Asia : an anthropological approach
Prentice Hall, c2002
4th ed
- : pbk
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For junior/senior-level courses in Anthropology, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, International Relations, Middle East Studies, and Islamic Studies.
Based on a synthesis of the extensive research of Middle Eastern and Western scholars, and the author's own research, this lively anthropological introduction to the Middle East and Central Asia explores the socio-political complexities of those regions and introduces students to the questions that have been, and are being, developed by scholars and writers concerned with the two regions.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Anthropology, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
2. Intellectual Predecessors: East and West.
II. LOCATIONS: REGION, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY.
3. Village and Community.
4. Pastoral Nomadism.
5. Cities in Their Place.
III. CONSTRUCTED MEANINGS.
6. What Is a Tribe?
7. Personal and Family Relationships.
8. Change in Practical Ideologies: Self, Gender, and Ethnicity.
9. The Cultural Order of Complex Societies.
IV. RELIGION AND EXPERIENCE.
10. Islam and the "Religions of the Book."
V. THE SHAPE OF CHANGE.
11. State Authority and Society.
Appendix: Internet Resources for the Middle East and Central Asia.
Glossary.
Index.
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