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Anthropology 106
Prof. Varisco
Fall 2002

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE MIDDLE EAST:

A BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Bibliographies and Background References

Abstracts in Anthropology (since 1973) Reference section
Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals (since 1963) Reference section
Bacharach, Jere L. (1984) A Middle East Studies Handbook. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Ref DS 61 .B2 1984
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (1960ff) Second edition. Leiden: Brill. Reference section
Index Islamicus. This is the most important bibliography for all aspects of Islam and the Middle East
Periodica Islamica (Malaysia) Since 1991; contains contents of numerous journals
Stevenson, Thomas (1994) Studies on Yemen, 1975-1990: A Bibliography of European-language Sources for Social Scientists. Chicago: American Institute for Yemeni Studies.
Strijp, Ruud (1992) Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East. Leiden: Brill. (this is a comprehensive bibliography for 1965-1987]

B. Periodicals

Arabica (Paris). Historic issues
Asian Affairs (London). Since 1901. Contemporary issues
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London). Historic and ethnographic issues
Int. Journal of Middle East Studies (Cambridge). Since 1970; contemporary and historic issues
Islam and Christian Muslim Relations (Oxfordshire). Since 1989.
Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (London). Since 1976; contemporary and historic issues
Journal of Palestine Studies (Chicago). Since 1971.
The Maghreb Review (London). Since 1976; contemporary issues
Middle East Economic Digest (London). Since 1957.
Middle East International (London). Since 1971; contemporary issues
Middle East Journal (Washington). Contemporary issues
Middle East Reports (Washington). Since 1971; contemporary issues
Yemen Update (New York). Since 1979; contemporary and historic issues

C. General References

Altorki, Soraya (1980) "Milk-kinship in Arab society: an unexplored problem in the ethnography of marriage," Ethnology 19:233-244.
Ahmad, A. and D. M. Hart, eds. (1984) Islam in Tribal Societies. London: RKP. [contains a number of important articles on how tribalism and Islam relate in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia]
Bowen, Donna Lee and E. A. Early (1993), editors, Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
Burke, Edmund, ed. (1993) Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press. CT1886.S77
Caton, Steven (1987) "Power, persuasion, and language: a critique of the segmentary model in the Middle East," Int. J. of Middle East Studies 19:77-101.
Eickelman, Dale (1998) The Middle East. An Anthropological Approach. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. (third edition) [this is a basic text and should be consulted for further references] (1981 edition= GN635 .N42 E38
Fernea, R. and J. M. Malarkey (1975) "Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: A Critical Assessment," Annual Review of Anthropology 4:183-206.
Lutfiyya, Abdulla and C. W. Churchill, editors, (1970) Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. The Hague: Mouton DS 36.8 .L85
Marx, Emmanuel (1977) "The tribe as a unit of subsistence: nomadic pastoralsim in the Middle East." American Anthropologist 79:343-363.
Murphy, R. and L. Kasden (1959) "The structure of parallel cousin marriage," American Anthropologist 61:17-29.
Sweet, Louise, ed. (1970) Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East. Garden City: The Natural History Pr. (two volumes of articles on the region] HN660.8 .A8 S9
Salem-Murdock, Muneera and M. M. Horowitz (1990), editors, Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East. Boulder: Westview Press. GN397.7 .A357 A58
Varisco, Daniel Martin (1995) "Metaphors and sacred history: The genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab "tribe," Anthropological Quarterly 68:3:139-156.

D. North Africa

Abu Zahra, Nadia (1982) Sidi Ameur -- a Tunisian Village. London: Ithaca Pr.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1966) "The sentiment of honour in Kabyle society," in J. G. Peristiany, ed. Honour and Shame, pp. 191-241. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr.
(1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Algeria)
Combs-Schilling, M. E. (1989) Sacred Performances. Islam, Sexuality and Sacrifice. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr. [anthropological study of Morocco; author focuses on issue of gender and sexuality]
Crapanzano, Vincent (1980) Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr. (psychological study of a Moroccan healer]
Duvignaud, Jean (1977) Change at Shebika. Austin: Unioversity of Texas Press.
Eickelman, Dale S. (1976) Moroccan Islam. Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr. [study of how Islam is seen and lived in Morocco]
(1985) Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth Century Notable. Princeton: Princeton
Univ. Pr. [focus on how Muslim scholars are educated]
El Zein, Abdul Hamid (1974) The Sacred Meadows. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. [excellent study of islamic symbolism on the island of Lamu in Kenya]
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1949) The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [classic study of a Bedouin society in which the "segmentary lineage system" is defined in detail]
Geertz, Clifford (1968) Islam Observed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr. [this is considered a classic; Geertz compares and contrasts Islam in Morocco and Bali]
Geertz, C. et al. (1979) Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr.
Gellner, Ernest (1969) Saints of the Atlas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [discusses the traditional tribal structure of Morocco]
Hammoudi, Abdullah (1993) The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Holy, Ladislav (1991) Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society. The Berti of Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (focus on symbolism)
Kapchan, Deborah (1996) Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition. Phila.: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
Messick, Brinkley (1987) "Subordinate discourse: women, weaving, and gender relations in North Africa," American Ethnologist 21:31-49.
Munson, Henry (1984) The House of Si Abd Allah. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ossman, Susan (1994) Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Rabinow, Paul (1977) Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Pr. [reflective account of what it is like to do ethnography]
Rosen, Lawrence (1972) "Muslim and Jewish Relations in a Moroccan City," Int. J. of Middle East Studies 3:435-449.
(1984) Bargaining for Reality. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr. (study of social identity and personal network formation in Morocco]
Waterbury, John (1972) North for the Trade. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Westermarck, Edward (1926) Ritual and Belief in Morocco. London: MacMillan. (2 volumes) [this is a classic collection on the folklore of Morocco]

E. Egypt

Abu-Lughod, Leila (1985) "A community of secrets: the separate world of Bedouin women," Signs 10:637-657.
(1986) Veiled Sentiments. Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Pr. DT72 .B4 A28 [focus on women and gender in an Egyptian Bedouin society; this is one of the best ethnographies available on the Middle East]
(1993) Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. University of California Press. HQ1793 .A68
Early, Evelyn A. (1992) Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone. Boulder: Lynne Reinner.
El Guindi, Fedwa (1981) "The Emerging Islamic Order: The Case of Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement," J. of Arab Affairs 1:245-261.
Gilsenen, Michael (1973) Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt: An Essay in the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Pr.
(1982 ) Recognizing Islam. An Anthropologist's Introduction. London: Croom Helm. [readable account which focuses on the author's work with sufi orders in Egypt]
The Hajj, Smadar Lavie and F. Rouse (1993) "Notes on the fantastic journey of the Hajj, his anthropologist, and her American passport." American Ethnologist 20:2:363-384.
Hobbs, Joseph J. (1989) Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. [excellent study of local folklore, especially on how the Bedouin view the environment]
Hoffmann-Ladd, Valerie J. (1987) "Polemics on the Modesty and Segregation of Women in Contemporary Egypt," Int. J. of Middle East Studies 19:23-50.
Inhorn, Marcia (1996) Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt. Phila.: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
Lavie, Smadar (1990) The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Berekeley: University of California Press.
Rugh, Andrea (1985) Family in Contemporary Egypt. Cairo: AUC Press.
Starrett, Gregory (1995) "The Political Economy of Religious Commodities in Cairo," American Anthropologist 97:1:51-68.

F. Arabian Peninsula

Adra, Najwa (1985) "The concept of tribe in Rural Yemen." In N. S. Hopkins and S. E. Ibrahim, eds, Arab Society, pp. 275-285. Cairo: AUC Pr.
(1997) "Dance and glance: Visualizing tribal identity in highland Yemen," Visual Anthropology 11:55-101.
Altorki, Soraya (1986) Women in Saudi Arabia: Ideology and Behavior among the Elite. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr. HQ1730 .A66
Caton, Steven (1990) "Peaks of Yemen I Summon" Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribal Town. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr. [excellent study of how poetry is made in Yemen]
Cole, Donald (1975) Nomads of the Nomads: The Al-Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter. Chicago: Aldine. [ecological study of Saudi nomads]
Dresch, Paul (1986) "The significance of the course events take in segmentary systems," American Ethnologist 13:309-324.
(1989) Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. [ethnographic study in highland Yemen]
Eickelman, Christine (1984) Women and Community in Oman. N.Y.: NYU Press.
Katakura, M. (1977) Bedouin Village: A Study of a Saudi Arabian People in Transition. Tokyo: Univ. of Tokyo Pr.
Meneley, Anne (1996) Tournaments of Value. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Mundy, Martha (1979) "Women's inheritance of land in highland Yemen," Arabian Studies 5:161-187.
(1995) Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen. London: I. B. Taurus.
Sowayan, Saad (1985) Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr. [folk poetry of Saudi Arabia]
Swagman, Charles (1988) Development and Change in Highland Yemen. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Pr. [focus on development of health projects]
Varisco, Daniel M. (1991) "Pearls of the Gulf," The World & I 6:5:606-619.
(1988) "Green Arabia. Continuity and change in North Yemen," The World & I 3:5:514-523.
(1986) "On the meaning of chewing: the significance of qat (Catha edulis) in the Yemen Arab Republic," Int. J. of Middle East Studies 18:1:1-13.
(1983) "Sayl and ghayl: the ecology of water allocation in Yemen" Human Ecology 11:365-383.
Varisco, D. M. and N. Adra (1984) "Affluence and the concept of the tribe in the central highlands of the Yemen Arab Republic." In R. Salisbury and E. Tooker, eds, Affluence and Cultural Survival, pp. 134-149. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.
Weir, Shelagh (1985) Qat in Yemen. Consumption and Social Change. London: British Museum Publications.
Wikan, Unni (1982) Behind the Veil in Arabia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Pr. (study of gender, including homosexuality, in Oman]
Wilkinson, John C. (1987) The Imamate Tradition of Oman. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Pr. [Wilkinson is a geographer who writes about the history of tribalism in Oman]

G. Levant and Turkey

Aburish, Said K. (1988) Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
Antoun, Richard (1989) Muslim Preacher in the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [detailed study of a sermon in a Jordanian village and how this relates to the everyday Islam of the local people]
Delaney, Carol (1990) "The hajj: sacred and secular," American Ethnologist 17:3:513-530. [on the Islamic pilgrimage from Turkey]
(1991) The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Pr.
Gilsenen, M. (1996) Lords of the Lebanese Marshes: Violence and narrrative in an Arab Society. Berkeley: University of California press.
Jabbur, Jibrail S. (1995) The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East. Albany: SUNY Press. DS 36.9 B4J3313
Lancaster, William (1981) The Rwala Bedouin Today. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. [account of a famous Bedouin tribe in Jordan]
Musil, Alois (1928) Manners and Customs of the Ruala Bedouins. New York: American Geographical Society. [classic account of Bedouin customs]
Peteet, Julie (1991) Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.
(1994) "Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinian intifada: a cultural politics of violence," American Ethnologist 21:1:31-49.
Rugh, Andrea B. (1997) Within the Circle: Parensts and Children in an Arab Village. N.Y.: Columbia University Press.
Shryock, Andrew (1996) "Tribes and the Print Trade: Notes from the Margins of Literate Culture in Jordan," American Anthropologist 98:1:26-40.
(1997) Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Tapper, Nancy (1983) "Gender and Religion in a Turkish Town: A Comparison of Two Types of Formal Women's Gatherings," in P. Holden (editor), Women's Religious Experience. London: Croom Helm.
Tapper, Nancy and Richard (1987) "The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam," Man 22:69-92.
(1987) "'Thank God We're Secular!':Aspects of Fundamentalism in a Turkish Town," In L. Caplan (editor), Studies in Religious Fundamentalism. London: MacMillan.

F. Iraq, Iran, Central Asia

Ahmed, Akbar (1976) Millennium and Charisma among Pathans: a Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Pakistan)
Barth, Frederik (1961) Nomads of South Persia. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Beck, Lois (1985) The Qashqa'i of Iran. New Haven: Yale University Press.
(1991) Nomad. A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Bradburd, Daniel (1990) Ambiguous Relations: Kin, Class, and Conflict among Komachi Pastoralists. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian. [Iran]
Edwards, David B. (1995) "Print Islam: Media and religious revolution in Afghanistan," Anthropological Quarterly 68:3:171-184.
Fernea, Elizabeth (1969) Guests of the Sheik. New York: Anchor. [account of village life in Iraq written in a novel style]
Fischer, Michael J. (1980) Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Loeffler, Reinhald (1988) Islam in Practice. Religions Beliefs in a Persian Village. Albany: SUNY Press.
Mottahedeh, Roy (1985) The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. New York: Pantheon Books. (excellent introduction to society and history of Iran)
Swenson, J. D. (1985) "Martyrdom: mytho-cathexis and the mobilization of the masses in the Iranian revolution," Ethos 13:2:121-149.
Tapper, Nancy (1991) Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender, and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

I. Kurds

Chaliand, Gerard (1994) The Kurdish Tragedy. London: ZED Books. DS59 .K86C4813
Izady, Mehrdad R. (1992) The Kurds: A Concise Handbook. Washinton: Crane Russak. DS 59 .K86I93 [This covers all aspects of the history and culture of the Kurds in an accessible format.]
Kahn, Margaret (1980) Children of the Jinn: In Search of the Kurds and their Country. N.Y.: Seaview Books.
Kurdish Times (journal of the Kurdish Library, Brooklyn), since 1985
Van Bruinessen, M. (1992) Agha, Sheikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan. London: ZED Books.


J. Islam

Ahmed, Akbar (1988) Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. London: Routledge. (Islamic perspective on anthropology) BP52 .A35
(1992) Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise. London: Routledge. BP163 .A354
Bulliet, Richard W. (1994) Islam: The View from the Edge. N.Y.: Columbia University Press. BP 52 .B85
El Zein, Abdul Hamid (1977) "Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam," Annual Rev. of Anthropology 6:227-54. (review article)
Elias, Jamal J. (1999) Islam. N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Fischer, Michael and M. Abedi (1990) Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Gellner, E. (1981) Muslim Society. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. [collection of several articles on Islam] HN 768 .G45
von Grunebaum, G. E. (1955) Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition. London: RKP. [dated, but still of value as a classic] D199.3 .V62
Tapper, Richard (1984) "Holier than thou: Islam in three tribal societies," in Ahmad and Hart, pp. 244-265. [excellent discussion of tribalism]
(1995) "'Islamic anthropology' and the 'anthropology of Islam'," Anthropological Quarterly 68:3:185-193.

K. Gender

Ahmed, Leila (1992) Women and Gender in Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press. HQ1784 .A67
Altorki, Soraya and C. F. El-Solh (1988) Arab Women in the Field. Studying Your Own Society. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Pr. (series of articles by Arab women who have done anthropological study in the Middle East] GN 346 .A7
Antoun, Richard T. (1968) "On the modesty of women in Arab Muslim villages: a study in the accommodation of traditions," American Anthropologist 70:671-697. [See the response of Abu-Zahra in the same journal, 72:1079-1087]
Beck, Lois and N. Keddie, eds. (1978) Women in the Muslim Middle East. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Pr. [collection of important articles on women] HQ 1170 .W59
Fernea, Elizabeth, editor, (1985) Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change. Austin:" University of Texas. HQ 1784 .W65
Fernea, Robert and Elizabeth (1972) "Variation in Religious Observance among Islamic women," in N. R. Keddie (editor), Scholars, Saints, and Sufis, pp. 385-401. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. BP 185 .S36
al-Hibri, Azizah, editor (1982) Women and Islam. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Mernissi, Fatima (1987) Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Pr. HQ1170 .M46 [this is one of the most popular texts on the issue of gender; note that the author generalizes from Morocco to make statements about Islam in general]

L. Novels, Literature and Folktales in Translation

Abouzeid, Leila (1989) Year of the Elephant. Austin: Texas. (Morocco)
Adnan, Etel (1982) Sitt Marie Rose. Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press. (Lebanon)
Al-Amir, Daisy (1995) The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Aleination. Austin: University of Texas Press. (Iraq)
Al-Ghitani, Gamal (1988) Zayni Barakat. London: Penguin Books. (account of 16th century Egypt by an Egyptian novelist)
Al-Shaykh, Hanan (1994) The Story of Zahra. New York: Anchor Books. (Lebanon)
Badr, Liyana (1994) A Balcony over the Fakihani. N.Y.: Interlink. (Palestine)
Badran, Margot and Miriam Cooke, editors (1990) Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomingdale: Indiana University Press.
Ben Jelloum, Tahar (1989) The Sacred Night. N.Y.: HBJ.
Bogary, Hamza (1991) The Sheltered Quarter. A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Critchfield, Richard (1978) Shahhat. An Egyptian. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Dammaj, Zayd Mutee' (1994) The Hostage. New York: Interlink. (Yemen)
Johnson-Davies, D., tr., (1994) Arabic Short Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Khalifeh, Sahar (1994) Wild Thorns. N.Y.: Interlink. (Palestine)
Muhawi, Ibrahim and S. Kanaana, editors (1989) Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Salih, Tayeb (1968) The Wedding of Zein. London: Heinemann. (Sudan)
Shami. Janset Berkok (1994) Cages on Opposite Shores. N.Y.: Interlink. (Turkey)
Tergeman, Siham (1994) Daughter of Damascus. Austin: University of Texas Press.

M. Orientalism, Media, and Western Stereotypes

Douglas, Allen and F. Malti-Douglas (1994) Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture. Bloomington: Indiana Uiniversity Press.
Graham-Brown, Sarah (1988) Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860-1915. N.Y.
Melman, Billie (1992) Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. DS61.7.A1M45
Michalak, Laurence (1988) Cruel and Unusual: Negative Images of Arabs in American Popular Culture. Washington, DC: ADC.
Said, Edward (1979) Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
Said, Edward and C. Hitchens, editors (1988) Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. London: Verso. DS119.7 .S3324
Shaheen, Jack G. (1984) The TV Arab. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State Univ. Press.

N. Major Organizations

AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE (ADC)
4201 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 500
Wshington, DC 20008
202-244-2990
[newsletter and publications]

AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL
1212 New York Ave., NW, Suite 525
Washington, DC 20005
202-789-2262

AMIDEAST
1100 17th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-785-0022
[publications and fellowships]

ARAB WORLD AND ISLAMIC RESOURCES AND SCHOOL SERVICES (AWAIR)
1400 Shattuck Ave., Suite 9
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-704-0517
[resources for schools and educators]

MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE (MEI)
1761 N St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-785-1141
[publishes Middle East Journal and other publications]

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MESA)
Univ. of Arizona
POB 210410
Tucson, AZ 85721-0410
520-621-5850
[publishes Int. J. of Middle East Studies]

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON U.S.-ARAB RELATIONS
1735 Eye Street, NW, Suite 515
Washington, DC 20006
202-293-0801

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