Chakravarti, Leila Zaki. (2016). Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor. New York: Berghahn Made in Egypt is a rich ethnographic account of shop floor culture in a private garment factory located in Port Said, …
VINCENT DEBAENE. Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature (trans. Justin Izzo). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, xv, 398 pp.ISBN 9780226107066 Far Afield traces the interactions between anthropological writing and literature in France from the end of the …
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, xi, 279 pp. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders is an eclectic collection of essays on the …
Hafez, Sherine and Susan Slyomovics, eds. 2013. Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 414 pp. Pb.: $26.52. ISBN-10: 025300753 Based on a 2010 conference in the Center for Near Eastern studies in UCLA, …
Hazem Kandil. (2012). Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen : Egypt’s Road to Revolution. London: Verso Avec sa civilisation millénaire, sa population généralement homogène et son puissant État central, l’Égypte est souvent conçue comme un monolithe. Or, s’il est d’ordinaire rarement réexaminé, ce monolithe …
NATALIE UNDERBERG & ELAYNE ZORN. Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, 109 p. While digital media attract increasing attention in anthropology (see Miller & Horst’s recent volume, Digital Anthropology), few writings examine in …