Macmillan :: Palgrave Scholarly & Reference Books: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Middle East Anthropology Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  Anti-Bullying Books for Middle Grade British Classics books Classics New and Old Current Social Movements Girl Power Books - Junior High and up International Day of Peace
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas Distributed Publishers
  Macmillan Higher Education Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

All Categories>Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies>Middle East Anthropology

Middle East Anthropology

Sort by

Top Sellers

Displaying 1-23 of 23

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Sacred Language, Ordinary People Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt Niloofar Haeri Palgrave Macmillan The cultures and politics of nations around the world may be understood (or misunderstood) in any number of ways. For the Arab world, language is the crucial...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East Houses in Motion Edited by Relli Shechter Palgrave Macmillan This groundbreaking investigation into the consumption of homes and domesticity in the Middle East during the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	A Shop of One's Own Independence and Reputation among Traders in Aleppo Culture and Society in Western and Central Asia #4 Annika Rabbo I.B. Tauris Traders, bazaaris and shop-keepers constitute a very important social and economic category in the Middle East. Based upon extensive fieldwork carried out by...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Allopathy Goes Native Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran Agnes Loeffler Tauris Academic Studies Allopathy is often described as "western" medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Allopathy Goes Native is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	The Zaza Kurds of Turkey A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society Library of Modern Middle East Studies Mehmed S. Kaya Tauris Academic Studies Turkey, a country at the very intersection between Europe and the Middle East, is comprised of a plethora of ethnicities and minority groups. There is however...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Cultural Encounters in the Arab World On Media, the Modern and the Everyday Library of Modern Middle East Studies Tarik Sabry I.B. Tauris In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Homogenization of Representations Modjtaba Sadria I.B. Tauris As the tide of globalization grows in sway and influence, are the built environments of the world's cities at risk of homogenization? Here, leading scholars...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Shattering Tradition Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean Islamic Mediterranean Series #8 Edited by Walter Dostal and Wolfgang Kraus I.B. Tauris Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of the...

Trade Paperback : $56.00 Buy	Gypsies and the Problem of Identities Contextual, Constructed and Contested Transactions Edited by Adrian Marsh and Elin Strand I.B. Tauris/Swedish Research - Istanbul What is the role and responsibility of Romani Studies scholars, and how can those engaged in this field change the situation of Gypsies in the world? In what...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Imagining the Arab Other How Arabs and Non-Arabs Represent Each Other Tahar Labib I.B. Tauris In this innovative study, Professor Tahar Labib seeks to understand how the 'Other' is viewed in Arab culture, and vice versa. Imagining The Arab Other...

Hardcover : $59.50 Buy	A History of the Arabian Peninsula Edited by Fahd al-Semmari I.B. Tauris The importance of this collection lies in its origins: for the first time, leading Saudi Arabian historians have created a history of the Arabian Peninsula...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	Hardship and Deliverance in the Islamic Tradition Mu'tazilism, Theology and Spirituality in the Writings of Al-Tanûkî Nouha Khalifa Tauris Academic Studies Al-Tanûkî was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE. During his life he wrote three books which compiled poetry,...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Palestine in Israeli School Books Ideology and Propaganda in Education Library of Modern Middle East Studies #82 Nurit Peled-Elhanan Tauris Academic Studies Each year, Israel’s young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	The Travels of Ibn al-Tayyib The Forgotten Journey of an Eighteenth Century Traveller to the Hijaz Library of Middle East History Mustapha Lahlali, Salah Al-Dihan and Wafa Abu Hatab Tauris Academic Studies In the eighteenth century, the academic scholar Ibn al-Tayyib made a rihla (journey) from Morocco to the Hijaz in modern day Saudi Arabia, documenting his...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Erasing Iraq The Human Costs of Carnage Michael Otterman and Richard Hil with Paul Wilson Pluto Press For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human...

Hardcover : $112.00 Buy	The Political Development of the Kurds in Iran Pastoral Nationalism Farideh Koohi-Kamali Palgrave Macmillan The Political Development of the Kurds in Iran examines the links between the structural changes in the Kurdish economy, and its political demands, namely...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Monarchies and Nations Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf Library of Modern Middle East Studies #52 Edited by Paul Dresch and James Piscatori I.B. Tauris By combining the views of anthropologists, political scientists and others, this book explores how the citizen populations of the Arab states of the Gulf...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Broken Promises, Broken Dreams Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, Second Edition Alice Rothchild Pluto Press The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Diversity and Pluralism in Islam Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims Edited by Z. Hirji Institute for Ismaili Studies For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen Ruling Families in Transition Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Gabriele vom Bruck; Foreword by Fred Halliday Palgrave Macmillan This book deals with elite transformation. It shows how a Muslim nobility, which had held power for centuries, accommodated to republican society following the...

Hardcover : $88.00 Buy	Seers, Saints and Sinners The Oral Tradition of Upper Egypt Elizabeth Wickett I.B. Tauris Traditional Egyptian folktales have a flavor and vivacity that until now has proved impossible to render in translation. Here, Elizabeth Wickett presents a...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Buddhism in Iran An Anthropological Approach to Traces and Influences Mostafa Vaziri Palgrave Macmillan Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, this book demonstrates that the traces and...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Women, Health and the State in the Middle East The Politics and Culture of Childbirth in Jordan Library of Modern Middle East Studies Irene Maffi I.B. Tauris Women's health in the Middle East is powerfully shaped by political imperatives and dominant ideologies of health. Here, Irene Maffi delineates the influence...

Displaying 1-23 of 23