Book Reports

Guidelines:

 

Students are required to write a review/report that describes/analyzes an ethnography dealing with the Middle East and that focuses on topics covered in the course.

 

The report should be about 4-5 pages (typed, double-spaced). It should (a) briefly summarize the book, (b) determine the book’s goals, (c) analyze how and how well the author achieved those goals, and (d) relate the book to a theme or themes covered in the course. You must fulfill each of these requirements in order to receive full credit. I am LEAST interested in your ability to do (a) and (b), and am MOST interested in your ability to do (c) and (d). You should, therefore, devote special attention to your analysis rather than to the summary.

 

Students can choose from the list of books listed below. (They are all available in the library). If you wish to write a report about a book not on this list, you must consult with the instructor.

 

DUE: Wednesday May 2, in class. NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED!

 

 

Books:

 

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories

 

Altorki, Soraya. Women in Saudi Arabia: Ideology and Behavior among the Elite

 

Altorki, Soraya and Donald Cole. Arabian Oasis City.

 

Antoun, Richard T. Muslim Preacher in the Modern World: a Jordanian Case Study in Comparative Perspective

 

Boddy, Janice. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan

 

Caton, Steven. "Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe

 

Crapanzano, Vincent. The Hamadshaha; A Study In Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry

________. Tuhami, Portrait of a Moroccan

 

Cole, Donald. Nomads of the Nomads: the Al Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter

 

Davis, John. Libyan Politics Tribe and Revolution: An Account of the Zuwaya and Their Government

 

Domínguez, Virginia R. People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel

 

Dorsky, Susan. Women of Amran: a Middle Eastern Ethnographic Study

 

Duvignaud, Jean. Change at Shebika; Report from a North African Village.

 

Dwyer, Kevin. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question

 

Eickelman, Dale F. Moroccan Islam: Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center.

 

Early, Evelyn. Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone

 

Friedl, Erika.  The Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village

 

Gilsenan, Michael. Recognizing Islam.

_______ . Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society

 

Hutchinson, Sharon. Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State.

 

Inhorn Marcia Claire. Infertility And Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender And Family Life In Egypt

________. Quest For Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions

 

Kapchan, Deborah A. Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition

 

Lancaster, William. The Rwala Bedouin Today

 

Makhlouf, Carla. Changing Veils: Women and Modernization in North Yemen

 

Meeker, Michael E. Literature and Violence in North Arabia

 

Messick, Brinkley. The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

 

Moors, Annelies. Women, Property, and Islam: Palestinian experience, 1920-1990

 

Pandolfo, Stefania. Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory

 

Peteet, Julie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement

 

Rabinow, Paul. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

 

Sayegh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon

 

Shryock, Andrew. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan

 

Slyomovics, Susan. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village

 

Starrett, Gregory. Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt

 

Vinogradov, Amal Rassam. The Ait Ndhir of Morocco: a Study of the Social Transformation of a Berber tribe

 

Weyland, Petra. Inside the Third World Village (on Egypt)

 

White, Jenny B. Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey

 

Wikan, Unni. Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman

________. Life Among the Poor in Cairo.

_______. Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-made Destinies in Cairo.

 

Young, William Charles. The Rashaayda Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan