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Jessica Winegar is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University..
About the Author: Lara Deeb is Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. students and potentially limits the public\'s access to critical knowledge about the Middle East.
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Anthropology\'s Politics offers a complex portrait of how academic politics ultimately hinders the education of U.
They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed "liberal" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers--from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public.
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Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U. scholars research and teach about the Middle East.
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What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.
At the same time, anthropology--a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds--has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms.
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