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> Dear colleagues,
>
> please find attached the call for papers for issue 2:2 of
> Anthropology of the Middle East (AME) and our guidelines for
> contributors.
>
> The thematic focus of issue 2:2 is: ‘Medical Anthropology in the
> Middle East’.
>
> The deadline for submissions is: 30 January 2007.
>
> We welcome articles and field reports on work in progress on this
> topic, but also accept contributions on other topics, book reviews
> and conference reports. Please note that submissions can be either
> in English or French.
>
> We would be grateful if you encouraged colleagues to contribute and
> pass on this call for papers.
>
> For further information about the journal please see our website
> (www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/ame) or contact us directly.
>
> We look forward to hearing from you.
>
> With our very best wishes,
>
> Soheila Shahshahani (editor in chief)
>
> Mohammad Shahbazi (co-editor)
>
> Birgit Reinel (managing editor)
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Anthropology of the Middle East, issue 2:2 (forthcoming in autumn
> 2007)
>
> Thematic focus: Medical Anthropology in the Middle East
> Co-editors: Soheila Shahshahani, Mohammad Shahbazi
>
>
> One of the subfields of anthropology that has faced the challenge
> of becoming applied is medical anthropology. The situation of the
> health, nutrition and disease of people world-wide has preoccupied
> scholars of this field. In particular migration, natural disasters
> and chemical bombardments have created precarious health situations
> in the Middle East. Encountering everyday problems of keeping
> healthy in reproduction, growth and old age is putting to test
> cultural views of health, security and biomedicine.
>
> Whether medical anthropology is in its infancy in the Middle East
> or not, the ancient cultures of the region with their ideas of
> health, disease and healing possess a vast repertoire of local
> knowledge which can be studied under the topics of ethno-
> psychiatry, ethno-medicine, ethno-pharmacology, ethno-botany, ethno-
> nutrition, and even ‘ethno-nursing’ and ethnomusicology for
> healing.
>
> In today’s constantly changing world of global food and food
> habits, the Middle East is also facing drug and alcohol problems as
> well as shortages in chemical medicines, besides a full array of
> medical facilities for transplantation, gamut donation, aesthetic
> surgeries, etc. The field has become so mind-bending that is has
> become a necessity at this point to assess the state of scholarly
> endeavours in medical anthropology.
>
> Articles are welcomed for this issue of AME on any topic within the
> field of medical anthropology from biomedicine to ethnomedicine
> (methodology to theory to fieldwork experience), from water and
> sanitation to emotional disorder and curing, from local witchcraft
> to medical tourism and views on good and evil in health and disease.
>
> Apart from articles engaging with topics relating to medical
> anthropology, we strongly welcome articles and reports addressing
> other issues and presenting work in progress. Texts may be
> submitted in English or French. For further information on the
> journal, please see: www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/ame.
>
> Deadline for submitting articles: 30 January 2007
>
> Please send your article to one of the editors:
> Soheila Shahshahani
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> Shahid Beheshti University
>
> B. P. 19585–193
>
> Tehran
>
> IRAN
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
> Mohammad Shahbazi
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> 144 Apple Blossom Dr
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> Brandon, MS 39047
>
> USA
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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