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Lila Abu-Lughod
Professor
Columbia University
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Biography
My early work was on emotion, poetry, and gender ideology in a Bedouin community in Egypt. As an anthropologist of the Middle East, I was concerned about the politics of re-presentation and so began to think about ethnographic writing itself, developing a critique of the concept of culture. Interests in gender in the Arab world and in postcolonial theory led to some work on the history and contemporary politics of Middle Eastern feminisms. I returned to the study of popular culture in ethnographic work on Egyptian television soap operas as they relate to national pedagogy, class politics, religious and gender identity, and modern subjectivities. This project led me to reflect on theoretical and methodological questions in the anthropology of media, but especially regarding the cultural production of nations. Questions of national identification, violent disruption, and memory are at the center of work I am beginning now on the Palestinian experience of 1948.
Representative Publications:
1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1998. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, edited. Princeton: Princeton University Press
2002. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, edited. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2005. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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