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Living in a World Heritage Site
Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and restoration projects in their homes, furnish and decorate their spaces, talk about their affective and sensual relations with houses, face conflicts in and about their houses, and more. Shedding light on the continuum between houses-as-dwellings and houses-as-heritage, the author establishes heritage as a trajectory: heritage as a quality results from a ‘surplus of attention’ and relates to nostalgia or to a feeling of threat, loss, and disappearance; to values related to purity, materiality, and time; and to actions of preservation and transmission. Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, the importance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites around the globe.
Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam
The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors investigate religious and social developments in Africa and the Near and Middle East while focusing e.g. on the production of meaning, negotiation of religious values and spaces, gendered agency, and debates of identity.
After Orientalism
The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor – the political critique of “colonial science” – that had already significantly impacted the humanities and social sciences. In a recent attempt to broaden the debate, the papers collected in this volume, offered at various seminars and an international symposium held in Paris in 2010-2011, critically examine whether Orientalism, as knowledge and as creative expression, was in fact fundamentally subservient to Western domination. By raising new issues, the papers shift the focu...
Entrepreneurs maghrébins
Les petites et moyennes entreprises connaissent depuis vingt ans un essor constant dans les pays du Maghreb. Actrices du processus de modernisation des économies, elles sont considérées comme un outil de création d'emplois, d'innovation et de développement des territoires. À partir d'approches localisées et basées sur des enquêtes de terrain, cet ouvrage explore la diversité de l'entrepreneuriat maghrébin en Algérie et en Tunisie, à la lumière d'une expérience libyenne et de l'analyse de la notion " d'informalité " dans l'économie marocaine. Dans un souci de ne pas réduire l'action de l'entrepreneur à sa seule finalité économique, l'originalité des contributions propos...
Histories of Anthropology
This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and ...
IBSS: Economics: 1993 Vol 42
This bibliography lists the most important works published in economics in 1993. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social science institutions. Published annually, the IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Screens and Veils
An analysis of seven films by female directors from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of “transvergence” to examine how Maghrebi women’s cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These ar...
Tunisia in crisis
This book maps out the main social and local conflicts that are currently fracturing Tunisian society today. These conflicts reflect both the loss of credibility due to the failure of national institutions and the rise of corporatism in the face of the difficulty of including young people in a civil society that is building new points of reference. Since 2011, they also reflect the tensions affecting Tunisia’s borders and the movements of populations from Libya and sub-Saharan Africa. Finally, they affect many departures from the country : from the flight of skills to illegal emigration. Based on field surveys, the author outlines proposals for responses, alternative modes or ways out of crises, to build new regulations that are better controlled by the actors themselves.
Fall to the abyss
This essay shows that the covid 19 has become a social phenomenon that deeply imprints individual and collective behaviours, both in social distancing and in solid laarity. He interprets the pandemic as a radical change, an unprecedented shift in the course of societies. This Coronavirage is an opportunity for the author to examine, from Tunisia, another order of the world.Tunisian society is apprehended in a new geopolitical framework : its links with the United States and its allies in the Near East, in a context of American-Chinese rivalries and the weakening of Europe. Tunisia is revealed in its internal logic of response to the pandemic, notably by the persistence of political and financial corruption, as well as by the resurgence of the parallel market and informal practices. In this perspective, the author in respondent to a new project of social and solidarity economy, which would take place in the construction of a third sector, in complementarity with the respondent to the private sector, to replace the current informal and clandestine practices.
L'archéologie en Tunisie (XIXe-XXe siècles)
À la croisée de l'histoire des savoirs, de l'anthropologie historique et de l'historiographie, cet ouvrage analyse la constitution d'un domaine de connaissance précis, l'archéologie, dans une Tunisie tant coloniale qu'indépendante. Comment cette discipline, qui revendique à juste titre un crédit de scientificité, se trouve-t-elle enrôlée dans des logiques d'affirmation impériale puis nationale ? Comment la définition des identités et des patrimoines évolue-t-elle dans des contextes politiques et mémoriels différents ? Quels Anciens sont-ils promus Ancêtres dans les constructions généalogiques tunisiennes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui ? Ce livre qui offre une contribution origina...
