Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. The movemen
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. The moveme
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while traveling along a comparative path of biblical, Egypto
El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to visual anthropology and the use of film in ethnographic research. She shows how visual media is now an accepted part of anthropological methodology, a vital
El Guindi (anthropology, U. of Southern California) explores the premises, principles, methods and history of the use of the visual--particularly film recording--within field anthropology. She begins
