{"title":"REVIEW - Angu – A Woman on the Edge. Dir. Fabienne Le Houérou. Prod. Cultura Mondi, CNRS-IREMAM. 46 mns. English with English subs. 2014.","authors":"A. Bentz","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.116","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Angu – A Woman on the Edge. Dir. Fabienne Le Houerou. Prod. Cultura Mondi, CNRS-IREMAM. 46 mns. English with English subs. 2014.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"44 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":"114571474","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":"The Zar in the Persian Gulf: Performative dimensions","authors":"W. Beeman","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.112","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the performative dimensions of the Zar ceremony as carried out throughout the Persian Gulf. This ceremony is mirrored by similar ones throughout North and East Africa, suggesting that the Zar may have resulted from cultural diffusion along historical trade routes. The Zar practitioners, the baba and the mama, have extensive demands in musical performance, movement and coordination in order to affect a palliative relief for persons affected by spirit ‘winds’ that inhabit them. The analysis in this paper uses the framework of ritual structure developed by Arnold Van Gennep and Victor Turner to show how the practitioners skilfully guide the person at the centre of the ceremony and the community of the ‘People of the Wind’ to a successful conclusion by bringing persons under treatment from a ‘normal’ state through a ‘liminal’ state to an eventual ‘reincorporated’ state in which relief is experienced. The performative aspects of the ceremony move those who are being treated through stages in which the inhabiting spirit is addressed: induction, movement into a trance state both for the practitioner and the person being treated, addressing of the spirit by the practitioners and return of the person being treated to normal life. All of these stages are marked by special music, chanting and movement. The Zar ceremony is an important method of non-allopathic treatment for emotional disorders that might elsewhere be treated through psychiatry in clinical settings.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"10 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":"129831628","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 - Behind the Wheel. Dir. Elise Laker. 20 mns. Uzbek with English and Czech subs. The University of Manchester, 2013.","authors":"Carlo Cubero","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.119","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Behind the Wheel. Dir. Elise Laker. 20 mns. Uzbek with English and Czech subs. The University of Manchester, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"9 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":"123797257","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 New Plastic Road. Dir. Angelos Tsaousis and Myrto Papadopoulos. Prod. Filmografik Productions. 43 mns. Shughni-English with English subs. 2015.","authors":"Till Mostowlansky","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.122","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - The New Plastic Road. Dir. Angelos Tsaousis and Myrto Papadopoulos. Prod. Filmografik Productions. 43 mns. Shughni-English with English subs. 2015.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"96 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":"131999144","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 - Doing this is Great! Dir. and prod. Kadri Koop. 11 mns. Chinese with English subs. 2013. Vimeo.","authors":"D. Wiktor-Mach","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I1.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I1.120","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Doing this is Great! Dir. and prod. Kadri Koop. 11 mns. Chinese with English subs. 2013. Vimeo.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"27 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":"127023330","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 - Dressler, Markus. Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam. xiii + 323 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.","authors":"Rıza Yıldırım","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V2I2.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V2I2.99","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Dressler, Markus. Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam. xiii + 323 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":" 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120830168","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 - Maîtres de chant diphonique. Dir. Jean-François Castell. 53 mns. Les Films du Rocher, 2012.","authors":"M. Abecassis","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V2I2.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V2I2.104","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Maitres de chant diphonique. Dir. Jean-Francois Castell. 53 mns. Les Films du Rocher, 2012.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131418496","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 - Pemberton, Kelly. Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India. 233 pp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.","authors":"T. Dahnhardt","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V2I2.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V2I2.100","url":null,"abstract":"Pemberton, Kelly. Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India. 233 pp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"491 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132236024","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 - Dabashi, Hamid. Being a Muslim in the World. vii + 188 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.","authors":"Hossein Nazari","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V2I2.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V2I2.102","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Dabashi, Hamid. Being a Muslim in the World. vii + 188 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918027","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 - Koch, Erin. Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia. xiv + 231 pp. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013.","authors":"P. Sherouse","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V2I2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V2I2.101","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Koch, Erin. Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia. xiv + 231 pp. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"14 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133526596","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}