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A Political Anthropology of Yemen: Concept and Critique

Edited by Ross Porter, Contributions by Steven C. Caton, Contributions by Kamilia Al-Eriani, Contributions by Martha Mundy, Contributions by Luca Nevola, Contributions by Susanne Dahlgren, Contributions by Nathalie Peutz, Contributions by Angie Heo, Contributions by Marina De Regt

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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 an anthropology attuned not only to locally significant political concepts, but also to the ways in which people actively confront and reorient them while challenging their worlds and engaging 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.