Middle Eastern Belongings (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: King, Diane E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book features chapters that examine the various ways of belonging in the Middle East.

This book was published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317988953
• Artikelnr.: 57100569

Autorenporträt

Diane E. King is a cultural anthropologist interested in identities ranging from the gendered to the national and trans-national. Her main field site is the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where she has worked since 1995. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductions: Impositions
ironies
bodies
lands Diane E. King 2. On the Margins: Women
national boundaries
and conflict in Saddam's Iraq Sarah Smiles Persinger 3. Leaving Mother-Land: The anti-feminine in Fida'i narratives Samar Kanafani 4. The Personal is Patrilineal: Namus as sovereignty Diane E. King 5. Land of Symbols: Cactus
poppies
orange and olive trees in Palestine Nasser Abufarha 6. Naturalising
Neutralising Women's Bodies: The "Headscarf Affair" and the Politics of Representation Gabriele vom Bruck 7. When Belonging Inspires-Death
hope
distance Virginia R. Dominguez