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Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management

Dowell, Remona Jeannine
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915

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2013, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Anthropology.
This thesis discusses the intersection between gender and the Arab world through the lens of anthropological theory and conflict management. The first chapter identifies the dominant streams of universalism and relativism within conflict management and anthropology. The second chapter traces gender through anthropological theory of the late twentieth century. The work of scholars Leila Ahmed, Saba Mahmood, and Lila Abu-Lughod are used in the third chapter to analyze how certain ideas about relativism and culture can be used in a variety of contexts dealing with communities of Muslim women and concluding with a series of questions revolving around how conflict management can utilize and benefit from these ideas and the works of the three scholars.
Richard Feinberg, Dr. (Advisor)
Landen Hancock, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jung-Yeup Kim, Dr. (Committee Member)
Susan Roxburgh, Dr. (Committee Member)
69 p.
Cultural Anthropology
Universalism; relativism; Leila Ahmed; Leila Abu-Lughod; Saba Mahmood; Orientalism; Edward Said; Worldview Analysis; Islam; gender; anthropology; conflict management; liberal imaginary; agency; Arab world

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  • Dowell, R. J. (2013). Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dowell, Remona. Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management. 2013. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dowell, Remona. "Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915

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