Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (UC Press) winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award, among other books. Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. Among his books is On Deep History and the Brain, (UC Press) a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology.
7 Ebooks by Andrew Shryock
Judith Scheele & Andrew Shryock: The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology
Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and sho …
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Daniel Lord Smail & Andrew Shryock: Deep History
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out …
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€32.99
Nabeel Abraham & Sally Howell: Arab Detroit 9/11
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Detroit’s large and nationally prominent Arab and Muslim communities have faced heightened prejudice, government surveillance, and political …
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€33.73
Nabeel Abraham: Arab Detroit
Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the …
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€36.20
Judith Scheele & Andrew Shryock: Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology
"An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the cliches of contemporary anthropological thought." -Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion …
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€18.73
Andrew Shryock: Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national …
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€54.99
Judith Scheele & Andrew Shryock: Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology
"An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the cliches of contemporary anthropological thought." -Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion …
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English
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€18.66
