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A Political Anthropology of Yemen

Concept and Critique
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At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and military interventions, the essays in this collection serve as a timely reminder of the need for grounded anthropological study in even the harshest of circumstances. From tribesmen to refugees, revolutionaries to farmers, state workers to charity workers, intellectuals to the unemployed and the destitute, we learn of the everyday political languages through which people in the country live their lives. This volume is a call for a political anthropology sensitive not only to different notions of the political, but to the ways in which people challenge their own worlds, confront and reorient concepts, and engage the political imagination in a spirit of abiding critique. This concise collection is the fruit of decades of ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen and will be of interest to students and scholars seeking an intimate and nuanced account of life in the country.
Ross Porter is a lecturer in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.
Urging a more grounded approach to ethnography that counters overarching paradigms of Yemen's insecurity.
"The authors provide trenchant insights into how Yemenis try to manage their lives despite the disruptions of war and displacement." - Anne Meneley, author of Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
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