2005, ISBN: 9780465097197

Paperback, Hardcover

Cambridge University Press, 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a stud… More...

Cambridge University Press, 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1450grams, ISBN:0521221757, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 0, Durham and London: Duke University Press Books, 2005. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 366 Pages Indexed. There some underlining and marginal notes particularly in the early parts of the book. Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb -- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara for their understanding of the Arab. In this book the author examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through 1973. He reveals how American film and literary, historical, journalistic, and anthropological accounts of the region imagined the role of the United States in a world it seemed to dominate at the same time that they displaced domestic social concerns, particularly about race relations onto an exotic North Africa. The author Edwards reads a broad range of texts to recuperate the disorienting possibilities for rethinking American empire. Examining work by William Burroughs, Jane Bowles, Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling, Jane Kramer, Alfred Hitchcock, Clifford Geertz, James Michener, Ornette Coleman, General George S. Patton, and others, he puts American texts in conversation with an archive of Maghrebi responses. Whether considering Warner Brothers marketing of the movie Casablanca in 1942, journalistic representations of Tangier as a city of excess and queerness, Paul Bowles's collaboration with the Moroccan artist Mohammed Mrabet, the hippie communities in and around Marrakech in the 1960s and early 1970s, or the writings of young American anthropologists working nearby at the same time, Edwards illuminates the circulation of American texts, their relationship to Maghrebi history, and the ways they might be read so as to reimagine the role of American culture in the world., Duke University Press Books, 2005, 3, London : Tavistock Publications, 1966. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xlii, 176 p.: ill.; 22 cm. Notes: Social science paperbacks, SSP43. Derived from material presented at a conference sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introduction/Max Gluckman and Fred Eggan -- Religion as a cultural system/Clifford Geertz -- Colour classification in Ndembu ritual/Victor W. Turner -- Religion: problems of definition and explanation/Melford E. Spiro -- Fathers, elders and ghosts in Edo religion/R.E.Bradbury -- Territorial groupings and religion among the Iraqw/Edward H. Winter. Subjects: Conference. New approaches in social anthropology (1963: University of Cambridge). Religion and sociology. Religion and culture History. Theological anthropology Christianity. Genre: Conference papers and proceedings., London : Tavistock Publications, 1966, 0, Basic Books, 1977 Softcover in illustrated wraps as pictured, no remainder mark, new unread copy; 8vo; 470pp indexed. Soft Cover. New., Basic Books, 1977, 6<