Andrew Shryock
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84910 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Shryock |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Shryock |
| FIRMA | SHRYOCK A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 307 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Comment by Andrew Shryock
Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas Yarrow
Afterword
I should start with a confession: I have never known for sure what a public is. I have studied them, addressed them, and I know when I am in one. But when pressed to define ‘a public’, I seldom say the same thing twice. I do know that publics described as ‘liberal’ are often unwelcoming places, or politically imposed frameworks, in the communities I work with most closely as an anthropologist. In Yemen and Jordan, tribal groups push for governmen…
Keeping to Oneself
Anthropologists have given copious attention to problems of exchange, of giving and receiving. Yet problems of taking, unequal accumulation, secret storage, predation, and refusal to share are no less central to social life. This is certainly the case among Jordanian Bedouin, whose notions of hospitality are a complex blend of reciprocity, protection, and coercive extraction. The families of dominant tribal shaykhs are often known for their abili…
Chapter 3 Postscript
Tribal Priorities
In the oral traditions of Jordan's Balga tribes, one event occurs many times: local shaykhs are invited to a feast by the Turks, and at this feast the shaykhs are attacked, arrested, or killed. Sometimes it is the Ottomans who are betrayed by their bedouin hosts. Either way, they should have seen it coming—that is usually the narrator's conclusion—but the lure of hospitality was strong. Something about these encounters was worth the risk of endin…
Rites of Return
The idea of ‘returning’ to the Mediterranean dates back to the earliest attempts to formulate a distinct anthropology of the region. Why is this? Certain approaches to the Mediterranean are durable for good reasons; familiarity with them can help us avoid the unwitting recursion of stereotypical frames without simply dismissing important work done in the past or implying that new work is unrelated to older approaches. Contemporary forms of mobili…
Keeping to oneself
Anthropologists have given copious attention to problems of exchange, of giving and receiving. Yet problems of taking, unequal accumulation, secret storage, predation, and refusal to share are no less central to social life. This is certainly the case among Jordanian Bedouin, whose notions of hospitality are a complex blend of reciprocity, protection, and coercive extraction. The families of dominant tribal shaykhs are often known for their abili…
On containers
You could think of these essays as six shipping containers filled with a bewildering array of goods. There are clay pots, grain silos, tombs, junk drawers, smart phones, and entire houses (round an
On containers
This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history
It's this, not that
Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is-and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Breaking hospitality apart
Talk of hospitality often turns to the problem of bad guests and bad hosts. This trend holds whether the speakers are Balga Bedouin in Jordan or political theorists in Europe, and it would seem that bad hospitality accumulates in the gaps created by shifts in scale, as houses absorb other houses, or nation-states and their citizens compete to control the concepts and practices that define house, host, and guest. Moving from Bedouin history to met…
Deep History
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written …
Fixers in Motion.A Conversation
Since taking the editorial helm ofCSSHin 2006, I have watched several intellectual trends shift and gather momentum. Postsocialist and postcolonial studies are merging into a more generalized interest in the politics of empire. Critical impulses once associated with the 'post' approaches have found their way into studies of secularism, conversion, translation, and state effects. Increasingly, these topics are analyzed as transregional processes t…
Citizenship and Crisis
Hospitality Lessons
This essay explores thematic overlaps in Jacques Derrida's writings on hospitality and stories of hospitality told by Balga Bedouin in Jordan. Why do these overlaps exist? What produces them? What can these likenesses tell us about the relationship between hospitality, politics and moral reasoning? Juxtaposing an exemplary Jordanian tale of hospitality with motifs and claims central to Derrida's work, I argue that a shared and second language per…
Tolerance and Conversion in the Ottoman Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Thinking about Hospitality, with Derrida, Kant, and the Balga Bedouin
Anthropos , Seite 405 - 422
A Reply to Joseph Massad
In noting that Joseph Massad's identity as a Palestinian Jordanian should be central to any critical evaluation of Colonial Effects , I am taking seriously his claim that writing the book entailed, for him, a gradual “coming to terms” with this identity. I am also reapplying Massad's own interpretive method. “Throughout the book,” he tells us, “you will notice that I identify the geographic origins and the religious and ethnic backgrounds of peop…
The Graves of Tarim
Reviewed by Andrew Shryock University of Michigan Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, November, 2006, 406 pp. Studies of "the global" and "the diasporic" have lost much of the aura that surrounded them in the 1990s. This normalization is a good thing. The brave new world of transnationalism was oddly oblivious to its own provincialism. Its "global flows," once …
Off Stage/On Display
Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of collective intimacy? Why does belonging to a group, knowing about it, or displaying its qualities to others require that certain aspects of identification be denied—not because they are false or stereotypical, but because they are thought to be accurate and indispensable signs of membership? In Off Stage/On Display, ten scholars …
Middle East Section
The New Jordanian Hospitality
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan evokes a simpler time, a sense of place and a cherished way of life. A visit to Jordan brings a return to respected and hallowed tradition. Immediately upon arrival, the visitor is aware of the inherent hospitality of the Jordanian people as exemplified by the Arabic 'Ahlan wa sahlan' ('I Welcome You'), heard at every turn
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
Islamophobia/Islamophilia
Introduction/Islam as an Object of Fear and Affection: A Problem for Critical Analysis Andrew Shryock Part 1. Continuities and Transformations 1. Western Hostility toward Muslims: A History of the Present Tomaz Mastnak 2. The Khalil Gibran International Academy: Diasporic Confrontations in the Face of an Emerging Islamophobia Naamah Paley Part 2. Modern (Self) Criticism 3. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators Mo…
The new basics
Many good books about anthropology are written today in survival-revival mode. A mix of theoretical self-awareness, how-to advice, creedal innovation, and canon-building, this genre is committed to
The New Jordanian Hospitality
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan evokes a simpler time, a sense of place and a cherished way of life. A visit to Jordan brings a return to respected and hallowed tradition. Immediately upon arrival, the visitor is aware of the inherent hospitality of the Jordanian people as exemplified by the Arabic 'Ahlan wa sahlan' ('I Welcome You'), heard at every turn
Breaking hospitality apart
Talk of hospitality often turns to the problem of bad guests and bad hosts. This trend holds whether the speakers are Balga Bedouin in Jordan or political theorists in Europe, and it would seem that bad hospitality accumulates in the gaps created by shifts in scale, as houses absorb other houses, or nation-states and their citizens compete to control the concepts and practices that define house, host, and guest. Moving from Bedouin history to met…
Thinking about Hospitality, with Derrida, Kant, and the Balga Bedouin
Anthropos , Seite 405 - 422
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
On containers
This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history
Ever a Guest in Our House”
The literature on Jordan is awash in studies of the history, politics, and possible futures of the Hashemite family. In a polity so closely identified with its ruling dynasty, one would be surprised if this fixation did not prevail. More curious to the anthropologist is the extent to which the scholarly attention lavished on the Hashemites has centered on the rather obvious fact that they rule, but has given less concern to the fact that they rul…
Keeping to oneself
Anthropologists have given copious attention to problems of exchange, of giving and receiving. Yet problems of taking, unequal accumulation, secret storage, predation, and refusal to share are no less central to social life. This is certainly the case among Jordanian Bedouin, whose notions of hospitality are a complex blend of reciprocity, protection, and coercive extraction. The families of dominant tribal shaykhs are often known for their abili…
Hospitality Lessons
This essay explores thematic overlaps in Jacques Derrida's writings on hospitality and stories of hospitality told by Balga Bedouin in Jordan. Why do these overlaps exist? What produces them? What can these likenesses tell us about the relationship between hospitality, politics and moral reasoning? Juxtaposing an exemplary Jordanian tale of hospitality with motifs and claims central to Derrida's work, I argue that a shared and second language per…
New Images of Arab Detroit
It's this, not that
Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2013. What kinship is-and is not. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Tribes and the Print Trade
On containers
You could think of these essays as six shipping containers filled with a bewildering array of goods. There are clay pots, grain silos, tombs, junk drawers, smart phones, and entire houses (round an
Autonomy, Entanglement, and the Feud
Ortner and Whitehead's treatment ofgender constructs as elements of structures is used to interpret the gender system that prevailed among the Gheg tribes ofNorth Albania in the early decades ofthis century. It is argued that Albanian gender ideas were informed by the tension separating values of autonomy and entanglement, and that these values assumed particular meaning within a 'prestige structure ofhonor and thefeud. Honor is depicted as a sem…
Tolerance and Conversion in the Ottoman Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
Popular Genealogical Nationalism
The proprietors of Amman's publishing houses do a brisk trade in books about politics and religion. They have also, in recent years, begun to profit from the growing demand for 'tribal literature.' This new market, which emerged in the late 1970s, expanded greatly in the 1980s. It includes folkloric monographs (al ʿAbbadi 1989; al-ʿUzayzi 1984), genealogical compendia (Abu Khusa 1989), Bedouin poetry (al-ʿUzayzi 1991), introductions to tribal law…
The Rise of Nasir Al-Nims
This article examines local conceptions of shaykhly authority among Near Eastern tribes-people. Special attention is given to the personal history of Nasir al-Nims, a shaykh of the Murad tribe in North Yemen. The story of Nasir's rise to prominence, told by his grandson, is recounted and analyzed. A close study of this narrative reveals (1) patterns which recur frequently in the lives of shaykhs, (2) the structural conditions in which shaykhs of …
Writing Oral History in Tribal Jordan
Alors qu'un membre de la tribu adwan du centre de la Jordanie s'efforce d'adapter son histoire tribale orale aux formes ecrites, il realise que les traditions orales resistent au pouvoir assimilateur du « capitalisme de l'imprimerie »
Afterword
I should start with a confession: I have never known for sure what a public is. I have studied them, addressed them, and I know when I am in one. But when pressed to define ‘a public’, I seldom say the same thing twice. I do know that publics described as ‘liberal’ are often unwelcoming places, or politically imposed frameworks, in the communities I work with most closely as an anthropologist. In Yemen and Jordan, tribal groups push for governmen…
Tribal Priorities
In the oral traditions of Jordan's Balga tribes, one event occurs many times: local shaykhs are invited to a feast by the Turks, and at this feast the shaykhs are attacked, arrested, or killed. Sometimes it is the Ottomans who are betrayed by their bedouin hosts. Either way, they should have seen it coming—that is usually the narrator's conclusion—but the lure of hospitality was strong. Something about these encounters was worth the risk of endin…
Rites of Return
The idea of ‘returning’ to the Mediterranean dates back to the earliest attempts to formulate a distinct anthropology of the region. Why is this? Certain approaches to the Mediterranean are durable for good reasons; familiarity with them can help us avoid the unwitting recursion of stereotypical frames without simply dismissing important work done in the past or implying that new work is unrelated to older approaches. Contemporary forms of mobili…
Fixers in Motion.A Conversation
Since taking the editorial helm ofCSSHin 2006, I have watched several intellectual trends shift and gather momentum. Postsocialist and postcolonial studies are merging into a more generalized interest in the politics of empire. Critical impulses once associated with the 'post' approaches have found their way into studies of secularism, conversion, translation, and state effects. Increasingly, these topics are analyzed as transregional processes t…
A Reply to Joseph Massad
In noting that Joseph Massad's identity as a Palestinian Jordanian should be central to any critical evaluation of Colonial Effects , I am taking seriously his claim that writing the book entailed, for him, a gradual “coming to terms” with this identity. I am also reapplying Massad's own interpretive method. “Throughout the book,” he tells us, “you will notice that I identify the geographic origins and the religious and ethnic backgrounds of peop…
Putting Islam to Work
Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt. Gregory Starrett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 324 pp
Autonomy, Entanglement, and the Feud
Ortner and Whitehead's treatment ofgender constructs as elements of structures is used to interpret the gender system that prevailed among the Gheg tribes ofNorth Albania in the early decades ofthis century. It is argued that Albanian gender ideas were informed by the tension separating values of autonomy and entanglement, and that these values assumed particular meaning within a 'prestige structure ofhonor and thefeud. Honor is depicted as a sem…
The Rise of Nasir Al-Nims
This article examines local conceptions of shaykhly authority among Near Eastern tribes-people. Special attention is given to the personal history of Nasir al-Nims, a shaykh of the Murad tribe in North Yemen. The story of Nasir's rise to prominence, told by his grandson, is recounted and analyzed. A close study of this narrative reveals (1) patterns which recur frequently in the lives of shaykhs, (2) the structural conditions in which shaykhs of …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Tribaliser » la Nation, « nationaliser » la Tribu
Writing Oral History in Tribal Jordan
Alors qu'un membre de la tribu adwan du centre de la Jordanie s'efforce d'adapter son histoire tribale orale aux formes ecrites, il realise que les traditions orales resistent au pouvoir assimilateur du « capitalisme de l'imprimerie »
Popular Genealogical Nationalism
The proprietors of Amman's publishing houses do a brisk trade in books about politics and religion. They have also, in recent years, begun to profit from the growing demand for 'tribal literature.' This new market, which emerged in the late 1970s, expanded greatly in the 1980s. It includes folkloric monographs (al ʿAbbadi 1989; al-ʿUzayzi 1984), genealogical compendia (Abu Khusa 1989), Bedouin poetry (al-ʿUzayzi 1991), introductions to tribal law…
Domestic Government
Tribes and the Print Trade
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how …
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt
Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt. WALTER ARMBRUST. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996; 275 pp. (paper). The creativity and intellectual sharpness of Armbrust's book will come as a relief to readers who had begun to suspect that and thin ethnography were made for each other. Armbrust's ethnography, conducted in middle-class Cairo, as rich as any work based in Egypt's Bedouin camps and peasant villages. Moreover, this richness achieved t…
Mainstreaming Arabs
The documentary video, Tales from Arab Detroit, is enjoying a rare blend of critical and popular success. This essay is an attempt to explain why the video is so popular with American audiences (Arab and non‐Arab alike). Special attention is given to (1) the representational strategies the makers of Tales used to shape their video; (2) the identity politics underlying these strategies; and (3) how interpretive differences among the filmmakers cul…
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
Putting Islam to Work
Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt. Gregory Starrett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 324 pp
Ever a Guest in Our House”
The literature on Jordan is awash in studies of the history, politics, and possible futures of the Hashemite family. In a polity so closely identified with its ruling dynasty, one would be surprised if this fixation did not prevail. More curious to the anthropologist is the extent to which the scholarly attention lavished on the Hashemites has centered on the rather obvious fact that they rule, but has given less concern to the fact that they rul…
Muslims on the Americanization Path
Book Review| January 01 2002 Muslims on the Americanization Path? Muslims on the Americanization Path?, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito. Andrew Shryock Andrew Shryock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Shryock; Muslims…
New Images of Arab Detroit
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
Off Stage/On Display
Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of collective intimacy? Why does belonging to a group, knowing about it, or displaying its qualities to others require that certain aspects of identification be denied—not because they are false or stereotypical, but because they are thought to be accurate and indispensable signs of membership? In Off Stage/On Display, ten scholars …
Middle East Section
The New Jordanian Hospitality
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan evokes a simpler time, a sense of place and a cherished way of life. A visit to Jordan brings a return to respected and hallowed tradition. Immediately upon arrival, the visitor is aware of the inherent hospitality of the Jordanian people as exemplified by the Arabic 'Ahlan wa sahlan' ('I Welcome You'), heard at every turn
A Reply to Joseph Massad
In noting that Joseph Massad's identity as a Palestinian Jordanian should be central to any critical evaluation of Colonial Effects , I am taking seriously his claim that writing the book entailed, for him, a gradual “coming to terms” with this identity. I am also reapplying Massad's own interpretive method. “Throughout the book,” he tells us, “you will notice that I identify the geographic origins and the religious and ethnic backgrounds of peop…
The Graves of Tarim
Reviewed by Andrew Shryock University of Michigan Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, November, 2006, 406 pp. Studies of "the global" and "the diasporic" have lost much of the aura that surrounded them in the 1990s. This normalization is a good thing. The brave new world of transnationalism was oddly oblivious to its own provincialism. Its "global flows," once …
Thinking about Hospitality, with Derrida, Kant, and the Balga Bedouin
Anthropos , Seite 405 - 422
Citizenship and Crisis
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