Anthropology of the Middle East

Course content

This course offers a general overview of the Middle Eastern communities and cultures through a critical discussion of the anthropological works on the area. The principal aim is to provide students with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to explore and appreciate the diversity of individual and collective experiences in the Middle East from a culturally relativistic point of view. Students will be exposed to a wide-range of ethnographic studies based on participant observation in various parts of the Middle East.