Toward a Cultural Anthropology of Arab Media

Reflections on the Codification of Everyday Life

Bibliographic Data

ID2156229
AuthorsMohamed Zayani (0000-0001-8294-7529, Georgetown University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume22
Issue1
Pages37-56
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2011.546850
OpenAlexW1994645814
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

This paper explores the potential of cultural anthropology to reinvigorate the study of Arab media and to help deepen our understanding of the complexity of media practices in the changing Middle East region. Drawing on critical theory and recent ethnographic work, the paper is an attempt to refocus the study of Arab media within cultural anthropology. It argues that the study of the evolving Arab mediascape calls not so much for consolidating the field within the purview of the discipline of media and communication, but for a cross‐disciplinary, theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of localized practices that is amenable to articulating overlapping dynamics of correspondences and disjunctions set in motion by mass‐mediated everyday life processes

Applied anthropology · Cultural anthropology · Discipline · Dynamics (music · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Field (mathematics · Mass media · Media studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society

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