The syllabus is comprised of books and online articles.
Required books are purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to UiO Network services
Books
@ Abdul Khabeer, Su’ad 2016 Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States. NY: NYU Press.
@ Bowen, John R. 2012. A New Anthropology of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Online articles
Abu-Lughod, Lila 2016 “The Cross-publics of Ethnography: The Case of “the Muslimwoman”. American Ethnologist Vol. 43, Issue 4. Pp 595–608.
Abdmolaei, Shirin 2014 “(Re) Fashioning Resistance: Women, Dress and Sexuality in Iran.” Anthropology of the Middle East. Vol. 6, issue 2 pp. 38–55.
Fernando, M. 2009. “Exceptional citizens: Secular Muslim women and the politics of difference in France.” Social Anthropology Vol. 17 Issue 4, pp 379 –392.
Jones, C. 2010 “Materializing piety: Gendered anxieties about faithful consumption in contemporary urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist Vol. 37 No.4. pp 617 – 637.
Marranci G. 2012 “Defensive or offensive dining? Halal dining practices among Malay Muslim Singaporeans and their effects on integration” The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Vol 23, issue 1.
Meneley A. 2007 “Fashions and Fundamentalisms in Fin-de Siècle Yemen: Chador Barbie and Islamic Socks.” Cultural Anthropology Vol 22. Issue 2, pp 314–243.
Naguib, Nefissa 2013. “The Compassionate Brother: A Note on Islamic Food Activism” Food, Culture & Society Vol.16. Issue 3.
Rouse, Carolyn M. “Pious Muslim Bodies and Alternative Medicine: Continuities and Discontinuities between the African Diaspora and an Emerging Gendered Diaspora” Transforming Anthropology Vol. 15, Number 2.
Rouse, C. & Janet Hoskins 2004, “Purity, Soul Food, and Sunni Islam: Explorations at the Intersection of Consumption and Resistance” Cultural Anthropology, Vol 12, Issue 2. 226–249.
Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela 2012, “Managing Muslim Visibility: Conversion, Immigration, and Spanish Imaginaries of Islam” American Anthropologist. Vol. 114, Issue 4. Pp 611-623.