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Expanding American anthropology, 1945-1980
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ISBN: 0817385894 9780817385897 9780817356880 0817356886 Year: 2012 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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General anthropology
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ISSN: 19393466 15371727 Publisher: Morgantown, W.Va


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Anthropology News.
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ISSN: 00981605 Publisher: Arlington (VA) American anthropological association


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Anthropology news.
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ISSN: 15416151 15563502 Year: 1999 Publisher: Arlington, Va. : American Anthropological Association,


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Anthropology's politics : disciplining the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780804781237 0804781230 9780804781244 0804781249 9780804796842 080479684X Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford, California Stanford University Press

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U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.S. military interests? This book is the first academic study to shed critical light on the political and economic pressures that shape how U.S. scholars research and teach about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U.S. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers—from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public. They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed "liberal" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropology's Politics offers a complex portrait of how academic politics ultimately hinders the education of U.S. students and potentially limits the public's access to critical knowledge about the Middle East.


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