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Anthropology of the Middle East
Aims & Scope
Editor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Call for Papers: Children and Youth of the Middle East
Anthropology of the Middle East is available online
Recent political events have shown an alarming lack of awareness in western countries of life in the Middle East. Anthropologists, trained in analysing local discourses and social actions and their socio-political and historical contexts, play an important role in making social and cultural developments in the Middle East more comprehensible to a wider world.
This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for scholarly exchange between anthropologists and other social scientists working in and on the Middle East. The journal's aim is to disseminate, on the basis of informed analysis and insight, a better understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and thereby to achieve a greater appreciation of Middle Eastern contributions to our culturally diverse world.
Anthropology of the Middle East is published twice a year, in the spring and autumn. Issues are often themed and on occasion guest edited. Each issue contains articles on specific research projects and outcomes on Middle Eastern topics. A section titled ‘Notes from the Field’ features research in progress. Book reviews and shorter reports on books, films and conferences are also included.
Subjects: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
Current Issue
Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Editorial: Rituals Retain their Importance in Everyday Life in the Middle East
Zubaydah Ashkahani and Soheila Shahshahani, co-editors
ARTICLES
Mourning Palestine: Death and Grief Rituals
Aref Abu Rabia and Nibal Khalil
Zâr Beliefs and Practices in Bandar Abbâs and Qeshm Island in Iran
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
Cheveux et poils dans le judaïsme
Karine Michel
World of the Dead as Viewed among the Negev Bedouin
Gideon M. Kressel; Sasson Bar-Zvi, Aref Abu Rabia
Mariages et alliances matrimoniales à Ispahan : Permanence et changements d'une génération à l’autre
Mohiadin Vatani
REPORTS
Publications
Svetlana Jacquesson, Pastoréalismes: Anthropologie historique des processus d’intégration chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan intérieu
Jean-Pierre Digard
Rachel Newcomb, Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco
Soraya Tremayne
Films
Abul, Shaker (2011) The Winds Are Fair, Same as Our Intention
Taiba Sadeq
Shilan Saadi, An Alley Behind our House
Soheila Shahshahani
Conferences
ISIS Conference in Istanbul, Turkey and ASPS Conference in Hyderabad, India
Mary Elaine Hegland