Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East

by Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar

Book Overview

U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology--a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds--has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804781249
• ISBN13: 9780804781244
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"