Dr Paul Dresch
Teaching and research interests
South Arabia, Arab Gulf, arabic-speaking Middle East, literate tradition, modernity, comparative histriography.
Publications
Books
2006 |
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The Rules of Barat: tribal documents from Yemen, Sanaa, 2006, Sana'a: Centre Français d’Archaeologie et et de Sciences Sociales, Deutsche Archaeologisches Institut.
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2000 |
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A History of Modern Yemen, 2000, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
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1989 |
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Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen, 1989, Clarendon Press: Oxford.
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Contributions to books
2010 |
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‘Arabia to the end of the First World War’, In F.H. Robinson (ed.)
The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 5: The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 134-153.
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2006 |
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‘Foreign Matter: The Place of Strangers in Gulf society’, In J. Fox, N. Mourtada-Sabah and M al-Mutawa (eds)
Globalization and the Arab Gulf, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 200-222.
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1999 |
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‘Proche orient: domaine arabe’, In P.Bonte and C. Izard (eds)
Dictionnaire de l’anthropologie et de l’ethnologie, PUF: Paris, 1999, pp. 809-811.
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1998 |
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‘Mutual Deception: Totality, Exchange, and Islam in the Middle East’, In W.James and N. Allen (eds)
Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute, Berghahn: Oxford and New York, 1998, pp. 111-33.
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1995 |
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‘Race, Culture and -- What? Some Pluralist Certainties in the United States’, In W. James (ed.)
The Pursuit of Certainty (ASA Decennial volume), Routledge: London and NY, 1995, pp. 61-91.
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1991 |
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‘Imams and Tribes: The Writing and Acting of History in Upper Yemen’, In P. Khoury and J. Kostiner (eds)
Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, U. of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991, pp. 252-287.
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Articles
2009 |
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‘Les mots et les choses: L'identité tribale en Arabie’, Études rurales
184
(juillet-décembre), 2009, pp. 185-202.
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2003 |
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‘A Pact of Brotherhood from Sufyân (Northern Yemen)’, Chroniques Yéménites
10
, 2003, pp. 49-59.
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1995 |
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‘Stereotypes and Political Styles: Fundamentalists and Tribesfolk in Yemen’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
27
(4), 1995, pp. 405-31.
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‘A Fragment of the Yemeni Past: Ali Nāsir Al-Qardaī and the Shabwah Incident’, Journal of Arabic Literature
26
(3), 1995, pp. 232-54.
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1993 |
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‘A Daily Plebiscite: Nation and State in Yemen’, Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée
67
(1), 1993, pp. 67-77.
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1992 |
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‘Ethnography and General Theory, or People versus Humankind’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
23
(1), 1992, pp. 17-36.
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1990 |
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‘Guaranty of the Market at Huth’, Arabian Studies
VIII
, 1990, pp. 63-91.
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1987 |
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‘Placing the Blame: A Means of Enforcing Obligations in Upper Yemen’, Anthropos
4
(6), 1987, pp. 427-443.
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1986 |
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‘The Significance of the Course Events Take in Segmentary Systems’, American Ethnologist
13
(2), 1986, pp. 309-324.
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