{"title":"REVIEW - Guiora, Amos N. Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. xviii + 188 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.","authors":"W. Rooke","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.133","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Guiora, Amos N. Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. xviii + 188 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126050503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Jung, Dietrich. Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. 323 pp. Sheffield: Equinox Pub., 2011.","authors":"A. Belhaj","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.135","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Jung, Dietrich. Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. 323 pp. Sheffield: Equinox Pub., 2011.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131302369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of: Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. 219 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2012.","authors":"Mante Vertelyte","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.127","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. 219 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2012.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114276003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Afsaruddin, Asma. Striving in the Path of God: Jihād and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought. x + 370 pp. Oxford University Press, 2013.","authors":"Simona E. Merati","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.125","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Afsaruddin, Asma. Striving in the Path of God: Jihād and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought. x + 370 pp. Oxford University Press, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129812869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Baraka Paths. Dir. and prod. Manoël Pénicaud and Khamis Mesbah. 49 mns. Arabic with English subs. 2007.","authors":"G. King","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.118","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Baraka Paths. Dir. and prod. Manoel Penicaud and Khamis Mesbah. 49 mns. Arabic with English subs. 2007.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128844313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Flowers From the Mount of Olives (Olimäe Oied). Dir. Heilika Pikkov. 70 mns. Estonian with English subs. 2013.","authors":"Daniela Bevilacqua","doi":"10.26581/acme.v3i1.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/acme.v3i1.121","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Flowers From the Mount of Olives (Olimae Oied). Dir. Heilika Pikkov. 70 mns. Estonian with English subs. 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130477338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fairies in the folklore of Booshehr","authors":"Farzaneh Sajadpoor, E. Jamali","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.114","url":null,"abstract":"In folklore, many stories and narratives give life to the legendary fairy and make her an inseparable part of everyday life. Parig (which means fairy) appears in Zoroastrian texts as one of Ahriman’s allies. Accordingly, researchers presume that, due to a change in religious attitudes, the fairy who was the goddess of fertility in pre-Zoroastrian times was recreated in Zoroastrian mythology as a negative figure. However, what is astonishing is the role of the fairy in the views and beliefs of common people, who still think favourably of this ancient goddess. A fairy is a mysterious figure and therefore cannot be judged as totally good or bad. She is a beautiful woman and brings fertility; she is also, on the other hand, an enticing woman sworn to delude men. In short, a fairy’s contradictory nature of being both good and bad and her eternal presence in believers’ minds indicate the importance and status of this ancient goddess. The fairy is more popular in the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf than in the other parts of Iran. Associated with qanats (tunnels dug to carry water) and springs in central Iran, she is a mermaid in the regions near the Persian Gulf. What is notable in the folklore of Booshehr is the natives’ firm belief in the presence of various fairies in their everyday lives. This article sets out to study the different types of fairies in the folklore of Booshehr and to examine their differences and similarities by classifying them. It will also deal briefly with the concept of fairies in Iranian culture.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134055421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - The Road to Kurdistan. Dir. and prod. Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri. 54 mns. Kurdish (Sorani dialect), Farsi with English subs. 2013.","authors":"Joanna Bocheńska","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.123","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - The Road to Kurdistan. Dir. and prod. Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri. 54 mns. Kurdish (Sorani dialect), Farsi with English subs. 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124309450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NGOs and female circumcision in Egypt. An anthropological enquiry.","authors":"E. Mescoli","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.113","url":null,"abstract":"In 1994, during the International Conference on Population and Development convened by the United Nations in Cairo, a shocking video was shown, recorded by CNN and depicting the circumcision of a ten-year-old child living in the same city. Discourses around female circumcision were not new to Egypt or to the international community, but the video, a new episode in a recurrent scandal, enhanced the ‘war against bad government’ (Foucault 2003:38) – a war fought with ideological weapons produced by various forms of expert knowledge, among which were medical and feminist views. The assignment of value to the ‘integrity’ of the female body and to women’s freedom of choice, both designed according to Western canons, led to different actions to ‘save’ Egyptian women. In this context, development agencies fostered a widespread representation of the ‘victim’, the woman’s mutilated body. Such representation is functional to establishing programmes that do not guarantee freedom of choice but rather require adherence to another female model, one that defines the ‘modern’ woman. My article, based on ethnographic experience, highlights the complexity of these dynamics and the role played by humanitarianism within them. The female body becomes the arena in which local and international economic powers operate, disregarding a real understanding of the practice, its meanings and its eventual change.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127250126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Apollonian Story. Dir. and prod. llan Moskovitch and Dan Bronfeld. 67 mns. Hebrew and English with English subs. 2014.","authors":"J. Allsopp","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.117","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Apollonian Story. Dir. and prod. llan Moskovitch and Dan Bronfeld. 67 mns. Hebrew and English with English subs. 2014.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"727 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113999254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}