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      Culture Still Matters: Notes From the Field

      Daniel Varisco

      Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is a critical defence of anthropology’s contributions to analysis of significant social and cultural issues through ethnographic fieldwork, covering theoretical concepts about culture…

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      Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen

      Daniel Martin Varisco

      This work employs a mixture of ethnographic fieldwork and the study of medieval Arabic scripts on folk astronomy and agriculture to explore the concept of lunar stations in pre-Islamic Arabia…

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      Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid

      Daniel Martin Varisco

      The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said’s work in more…

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      Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid

      Daniel Martin Varisco

      The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said’s work in more…

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      Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf

      Daniel Martin Varisco

      This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs.

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      Yemen and the Gulf States: The Making of a Crisis

      Yemen is the only state on the Arabian Peninsula that is not a member of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). It is also the only local state not ruled by…

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      The manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal

      Daniel Martin Varisco,G. R. Smith

      The author’s talents spanned many disciplines and this is a collection of works on agriculture, animals, astrology, astronomy, biography, calendars, crops, genealogies, geography, grammar, lexicography, mathematics, medicine, taxes, timekeeping, warfare…

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      Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology

      In Yemen, tribe is a historically rooted, emic concept of social representation. Rooted in remotest antiquity, over the last centuries the concept of tribe in Yemen has undergone transformations, but…

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