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The Mediterranean Incarnate
In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years to show how the Mediterranean has reemerged as a modern transnational region. From Sicilian poaching in North African territory to the construction of the TransMediterranean gas pipeline, Ben-Yehoyada examines the transformation of political action, imaginaries, and relations in the central Mediterranean while detailing the remarkable bonds that have formed between the Sicilians and Tunisians who live on its waters. The book centers on the town of Ma...
The Mediterranean Redux
This book on historical anthropology remaps the Mediterranean by reframing classical themes from early Mediterraneanist anthropology. This edited volume showcases how anthropology can contribute to an understanding of ongoing transnational dynamics and the new wave of scholarship on the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is back as a locus of international anxiety and academic concern. It has reemerged in the international news cycle as a space of desperate crossings and tragic endings, as the site in which a refugee crisis rivalling that of the Second World War is playing out in real time for a global viewing public. The scale of the crisis has called into question Europe’s humanitarian pri...
Critically Mediterranean
Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean informs philosophy, phenomenology, the poetics of time and space, and literary theory. Ranging from some of the earliest twentieth-century material on the Mediterranean to Edmond Amran El Maleh, Christoforos Savva, Orhan Pamuk, and Etel Adnan, the essays ask how modern and contemporary Mediterraneans may be deployed in political, cultural, artistic, and literary practice. The critical Mediterranean that emerges is plural and performative—a medium through which subjects may negotiate imagined relations with the world around them. Vibrant and deeply interdisciplinary, Critically Mediterranean offers timely interventions for a sea in crisis.
Incorporare il Mediterraneo
In Incorporare il Mediterraneo l’antropologo Naor Ben-Yehoyada ci porta a bordo del motopeschereccio mazarese Naumachos per un viaggio di trentasette giorni nei banchi di pesca tra Sicilia e Tunisia e mostra il riemergere del Mediterraneo come regione transnazionale nel corso del secondo dopoguerra. Dalla pesca siciliana nelle acque nordafricane alla costruzione del gasdotto TransMed, il libro esamina la trasformazione dell’azione politica, degli immaginari e delle relazioni tra i Siciliani e i Tunisini che abitano lungo le rive del mare. Il libro intreccia la recente, turbolenta, storia della città di Mazara del Vallo, attraversata dai conflitti sui diritti di pesca, sui progetti di sviluppo e dalle divergenti opinioni sul ruolo del Mediterraneo e della Sicilia nella politica nazionale. Attraverso i resoconti della vita a bordo del Naumachos, collegando l’etnografia con l’antropologia storica e l’analisi politico-economica, Incorporare il Mediterraneo propone un nuovo punto di vista sui processi storici della formazione regionale transnazionale, visto e vissuto dalle navi che, muovendosi nel mare comune, tessono insieme nuove costellazioni sociali e politiche.
Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands
While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In Living Politics, Kerry Ryan Chance radically flips the conversation by focusing on the actual language and humanity of post-apartheid activists rather than the external, idealistic commentary of old. Tracking everyday practices and interactions between poor residents and state agents in South Africa’s shack settlements, Chance investigates the rise of nationwide protests since the late 1990s. Based on ethnography in Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, the book analyzes the criminalization of...
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Dialoghi interculturali del Mediterraneo
Partendo dalla Sicilia come crocevia di culture mediterranee in costante dialogo, i saggi del volume esaminano il linguaggio di Domenico Tempio, poeta catanese del Settecento, che prende in prestito francesismi, ispanismi e arabismi, l’uso del siciliano nei testi musicali, e l’origine di pietanze alimentari e la loro rappresentazione letteraria, come chiave di lettura culturale tra le più significative per la comprensione dei popoli del Mediterraneo. Lo studio prosegue con l’analisi di testi come Il cane di terracotta (1996) e Il ladro di merendine (1996) di Andrea Camilleri, I delitti di via Medina-Sidonia (1996) di Santo Piazzese e l’opera di Leonardo Sciascia risalente agli anni Settanta, per esplorarne l’intrinseca transculturalità. In conclusione vengono trattati i “casi internazionali” dell’egiziana Nawal El Saadawi, in particolar modo il libro Una figlia di Iside (2021), a confronto con gli scritti della poetessa austriaca Ingeborg Bachmann e la complessa esperienza di Maïa Alonso e Marinette Pendola, autrici rispettivamente di Le soleil colonial (2015) e La riva lontana (2000).
A Region Among States
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state. How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the CCJ--a judicial institution responsive to the region, not any single nation--offer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity? Joining the CCJ as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied the work of the...
Colonial al-Andalus
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spain’s colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule. Writers of many political stripes have celebrated convivencia, the fabled “coexistence” of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval ...
Visions of Deliverance
In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily underst...
