Eickelman, Dale

Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations

6047 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-646-2621
Fax: 603-646-1140
Dale.F.Eickelman at dartmouth.edu

A.B. in Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Honors cum laude (1964)
M.A. in Islamic Studies, McGill University (1967)
M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago (1968, 1972)
Honorary M.A., Dartmouth College (1992)

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Selected publications since 2002

• 2006
  • “Social Sciences and the Qur’an,” in Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, vol. 5, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill, pp. 66-76.
• 2005
  • “Clifford Geertz and Islam,” in Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues, ed. Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good, pp. 63-75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bliz'kii Skhid ta Tsentral'na Aziia: Antropologichnii Podkhid. (Kiev: Stilos Publishing House). (Ukranian translation of The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th edition, 2002).
• 2004
  • “First Know the Enemy, Then Act,” in Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power, ed. Roberto J. Gonzalez, pp. 214-18 (Austin: University of Texas Press (First published in the Los Angeles Times, 2001).
  • Muslim Politics, co-authored with James Piscatori, new edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
  • “Compromised Contexts: Changing Ideas of Texts in the Islamic Tradition,” in Text and Context in Islamic Societies, ed. Irene A. Bierman, pp. 155-70 (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press).
  • Public Islam and the Common Good, ed. Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman (Leiden: Brill).
• 2003
  • Antropología del mundo Islámico (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra). (Spanish translation of Eickelman 2002 of The Middle East and Central Asia, 4th edition).
  • New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd edition, co-edited with Jon W. Anderson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
• 2002
  • “Islam and Ethical Pluralism,” in Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict, ed. Sohail H. Hashmi, pp. 115-34 (Princeton: Princeton University Press). [Also published in The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World, ed. Richard Madsen and Tracey B. Strong, pp. 161-79 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).]
  • “The Religious Public Sphere in Early Muslim Societies,” in The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, ed. Miriam Hoexter, S. N. Eisenstadt, and Nehemia Levtzion, pp. 1-8 (Albany: State University of New York Press).
  • The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th edition (Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall).
  • “The Arab ‘Street’ and the Middle East’s Democracy Deficit,” Naval War College Review 55, no. 4 (Autumn)

Books

Research Interests

• Anthropological theory and the study of complex societies
• The anthropology of knowledge and of Islam and the Middle East
• Orality, literacy, and the “objectification” of the religious imagination
• History in anthropological analysis
• Political authority, legitimacy and the symbolism of power.

Teaches

• Main Currents in Anthropology (ANTH 73)
• Secrecy and Lying in Politics, Law and Society (ANTH 16, identical to Public Policy 81.7)
• Political Anthropology (ANTH 15)
• Islam: An Anthropological Approach (ANTH 19)
• Thought and Change in the Middle East and Central Asia (ANTH 27, identical to AMES 5)
• Religion, Reason and Reform in Morocco (ANTH 50.2)

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