Anthropology's Politics - by Lara Deeb & Jessica Winegar (Paperback)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Anthropology's Politics</i> provides a hard-hitting account of what it's like to study and teach about Middle East politics and culture in the heart of U.S. empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Anthropology's Politics</i> provides a hard-hitting account of what it's like to study and teach about Middle East politics and culture in the heart of U.S. empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Anthropology's Politics</i> breaks a profound silence by examining how overbearing political forces shape the work of American anthropologists working on the Middle East and North Africa. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how work in certain regions is discouraged, how research on important political topics is devalued, and how scholars are dissuaded from using their professional knowledge to contribute to policy discussions and advocate for political action. This is an invaluable book that shatters a large and imposing disciplinary wall.--David Price "Saint Martin's University"<br><br><i>Anthropology's Politics</i> is a bold book. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar paint a disturbing picture of the pressures that shape how anthropologists research and teach about the Middle East and North AfricaDeeb and Winegar have written an important and well-researched book that can serve as a touchstone for the debates and backlash that are sure to come.--Lesley Gill "<i>American ethnologist</i>"<br><br><i>Anthropology's Politics</i> provides an invaluable and stunning wake-up call about the most urgent challenges facing academia today. Provocative and incisive, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with U.S. empire, neoliberal corporatization, and the political dynamics that shape higher education in the United States.--Nadine Suleiman Naber "University of Illinois at Chicago"<br><br>Going against the grain, <i>Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East</i> is a daring scholarly work about the complicity of the discipline of anthropology and its practitioners with the US/western hegemonic mind-set against the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region....[It] is an eye-opener for students, academicians, and readers at large about the hegemonic silencing of Middle East and North African voices in the production of knowledge.--<i>Arab Studies Quarterly</i><br><br>Incisive, forthright, and necessary. This unflinching account of the challenges that confront anthropologists, and anthropology's institutions, when engaging the politics of the Middle East is a must read for scholars in any field who are concerned with our professional responsibilities and our human obligations.--Ilana Feldman "George Washington University"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lara Deeb is Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. Jessica Winegar is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
Price History
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us