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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809027259
ISBN-13
9780809027255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44901286

Product Key Features

Book Title
Yemen Chronicle : an Anthropology of War and Mediation
Number of Pages
341 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Anthropology / General, Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
Steven Charles Caton
Format
Hardcover

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1.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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2005-041978
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""Yemen Chronicle is a talented anthropologist's account of trying to unravel meanings in a society where the rules are not only different from our own, but also fluid. Along the way the reader will learn much about Yemeni culture, poetry, politics, and the difficulty of interpreting what one sees and hears. And, to top it off, there is a mystery that goes unsolved for twenty years--and even now remains elusive." --William B. Quandt, University of Virginia ""Yemen Chronicle is a book of exquisite beauty and depth. Steven Caton weaves an ethnography of life in Yemen--in an accounting of particular events of abduction, imprisonment, and betrayal--that is as delicate as a spider's web. His keen sensibility and his gift for tuning into the poetic dimension of spoken Arabic make the reader part of the sanctuary where he lived, a witness on the roads he traveled. Yet the book is also a theoretical intervention of profound importance on key questions about ethnography and its relation to memory; the relation between what is an event and what is ordinary; who or what the anthropologist is; and, ultimately, the question that haunts the book--what is home?" --Veena Das, Chair, Department of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University ""Yemen Chronicle is an extraordinary work--beautifully crafted, deeply subtle, filled with an astonishing cultural sensibility. Caton's poignant portrait of lost friendships and the social suffering caused by cycles of tribal revenge killings is a triumph both of ethnography and of deeply personal narrative. The thrice-told tale of the abduction of two young Yemeni girls and the miserable fate of their abductor goes from page-turning mystery to seeming epictragedy to something, two decades on, that seems like political intrigue of the most dubious and farcical variety. In thirty years of being an assiduous reader of ethnography, I've read nothing like it. The tone and mood of longing for deep connections in "Yemen Chronicle often reminds me of E.M. Foster's "Passage to India. And then again, its story of an American observer getting caught up in local warfare reads like a reporter's dispatch from the front. Muhammad, Caton's friend and collaborator in translating tribal poetry, steps right out of the pages, as if he were unwilling to remain the object of anthropological enquiry and were demanding the same treatment of his complex subjectivity that Caton gave his own inner fears and aspirations. Few ethnographers have ever shown their research subjects in such subtle, passionate, and vulnerable depth. Far from being a Lawrence of Arabia (about whom he himself has written a book), Caton is a paradigm of postmodern, postcolonial, post almost-everything irony, contradiction, misunderstandings and anti-heroism. The experience of imprisonment in a Yemeni national security fortress is a story within a story that could be a film: half action feature, half comedy. The ending of the book balances precariously between grief, frustration and gathering understanding--as lived experience is and should be. The sense of longing and regret is as strong in "Yemen Chronicle as the wonder and skepticism. Such contradictions come together in the character of the anthropologist as anti-hero, perturbing and disturbing the very fabric of the social life he is there to study, his experience like some experiment in meaning-making gone awry that ends up with themost human of moral emotions--an unsteady mixture of disappointment and hope, failure and aspiration. A brilliant, unforgettable achievement!" --Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, "Yemen Chronicleis a wonderfully paradoxical book: an elegy shot through with comedy, a tale of a recent Arabian past that rings with echoes of theIliad. Caton modestly describes it as an 'ethno-memoir,' but it is more than that: it is a meditation on the very workings of memory, on the genesis of poetry and the nature of truth itself; it has resonances with a history of conflict that runs from the plain of Troy to present-day Baghdad. And therein is the greatest paradox: that a story as intensely personal as Caton's can be so universal." -Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author ofYemen: Travels in Dictionary Land   "Yemen Chronicleis a talented anthropologist's account of trying to unravel meanings in a society where the rules are not only different from our own, but also fluid. Along the way the reader will learn much about Yemeni culture, poetry, politics, and the difficulty of interpreting what one sees and hears. And, to top it off, there is a mystery that goes unsolved for twenty years-and even now remains elusive."  -William B. Quandt, University of Virginia  "Yemen Chronicleis a book of exquisite beauty and depth. Steven Caton weaves an ethnography of life in Yemen-in an accounting of particular events of abduction, imprisonment, and betrayal-that is as delicate as a spider's web. His keen sensibility and his gift for tuning into the poetic dimension of spoken Arabic make the reader part of the sanctuary where he lived, a witness on the roads he traveled. Yet the book is also a theoretical intervention of profound importance on key questions about ethnography and its relation to memory; the relation between what is an event and what is ordinary; who or what the anthropologist is; and, ultimately, the question that haunts the book-what is home?" -Veena Das, Chair, Department of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University "Yemen Chronicleis an extraordinary work-beautifully crafted, deeply subtle, filled with an astonishing cultural sensibility. Caton's poignant portrait of lost friendships and the social suffering caused by cycles of tribal revenge killings is a triumph both of ethnography and of deeply personal narrative. The thrice-told tale of the abduction of two young Yemeni girls and the miserable fate of their abductor goes from page-turning mystery to seeming epic tragedy to something, two decades on, that seems like political intrigue of the most dubious and farcical variety. In thirty years of being an assiduous reader of ethnography, I've read nothing like it. The tone and mood of longing for deep connections inYemen Chronicleoften reminds me of E.M. Foster'sPassage to India. And then again, its story of an American observer getting caught up in local warfare reads like a reporter's dispatch from the front. Muhammad, Caton's friend and collaborator in translating tribal poetry, steps right out of the pages, as if he were unwilling to remain the object of anthropological enquiry and were demanding the same treatment of his complex subjectivity that Caton gave his own inner fears and aspirations. Few ethnographers have ever shown their research subjects in such subtle, passionate, and vulnerable depth. Far from being a Lawrence of Arabia (about whom he himself has written a book), Caton is a paradigm of postmodern, postcolonial, post almost-everything irony, contradiction, misunderstandings and anti-heroism. The experience of imprisonment in a Yemeni national security fortress is a story within a story that could be a film: half action feature, half comedy. The ending of the book balances precariously between grief, frustration and gathering understanding--as lived experience is and should be. The sense of longing and regret is as strong inYemen Chronicleas the wonder and sk, "Yemen Chronicle is a talented anthropologist's account of trying to unravel meanings in a society where the rules are not only different from our own, but also fluid. Along the way the reader will learn much about Yemeni culture, poetry, politics, and the difficulty of interpreting what one sees and hears. And, to top it off, there is a mystery that goes unsolved for twenty years-and even now remains elusive."  -William B. Quandt, University of Virginia   "Yemen Chronicle is a book of exquisite beauty and depth. Steven Caton weaves an ethnography of life in Yemen-in an accounting of particular events of abduction, imprisonment, and betrayal-that is as delicate as a spider's web. His keen sensibility and his gift for tuning into the poetic dimension of spoken Arabic make the reader part of the sanctuary where he lived, a witness on the roads he traveled. Yet the book is also a theoretical intervention of profound importance on key questions about ethnography and its relation to memory; the relation between what is an event and what is ordinary; who or what the anthropologist is; and, ultimately, the question that haunts the book-what is home?" -Veena Das, Chair, Department of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University "Yemen Chronicle is an extraordinary work-beautifully crafted, deeply subtle, filled with an astonishing cultural sensibility. Caton's poignant portrait of lost friendships and the social suffering caused by cycles of tribal revenge killings is a triumph both of ethnography and of deeply personal narrative. The thrice-told tale of the abduction of two young Yemeni girls and the miserable fate of their abductor goes from page-turning mystery to seeming epic tragedy to something, two decades on, that seems like political intrigue of the most dubious and farcical variety. In thirty years of being an assiduous reader of ethnography, I've read nothing like it. The tone and mood of longing for deep connections in Yemen Chronicle often reminds me of E.M. Foster's Passage to India. And then again, its story of an American observer getting caught up in local warfare reads like a reporter's dispatch from the front. Muhammad, Caton's friend and collaborator in translating tribal poetry, steps right out of the pages, as if he were unwilling to remain the object of anthropological enquiry and were demanding the same treatment of his complex subjectivity that Caton gave his own inner fears and aspirations. Few ethnographers have ever shown their research subjects in such subtle, passionate, and vulnerable depth. Far from being a Lawrence of Arabia (about whom he himself has written a book), Caton is a paradigm of postmodern, postcolonial, post almost-everything irony, contradiction, misunderstandings and anti-heroism. The experience of imprisonment in a Yemeni national security fortress is a story within a story that could be a film: half action feature, half comedy. The ending of the book balances precariously between grief, frustration and gathering understanding--as lived experience is and should be. The sense of longing and regret is as strong in Yemen Chronicle as the wonder and skepticism. Such contradictions come together in the character of the anthropologist as anti-hero, perturbing and disturbing the very fabric of the social life he is there to study, his experience like some experiment in meaning-making gone awry that ends up with the most human of moral emotions--an unsteady mixture of disappointment and hope, failure and aspiration. A brilliant, unforgettable achievement!" -Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, ""Yemen Chronicle" is a wonderfully paradoxical book: an elegy shot through with comedy, a tale of a recent Arabian past that rings with echoes of the "Iliad," Caton modestly describes it as an ''ethno-memoir, '' but it is more than that: it is a meditation on the very workings of memory, on the genesis of poetry and the nature of truth itself; it has resonances with a history of conflict that runs from the plain of Troy to present-day Baghdad. And therein is the greatest paradox: that a story as intensely personal as Caton''s can be so universal." -- Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author of "Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land" ""Yemen Chronicle" is a talented anthropologist'' s account of trying to unravel meanings in a society where the rules are not only different from our own, but also fluid. Along the way the reader will learn much about Yemeni culture, poetry, politics, and the difficulty of interpreting what one sees and hears. And, to top it off, there is a mystery that goes unsolved for twenty years-- and even now remains elusive." -- William B. Quandt, University of Virginia ""Yemen Chronicle" is a book of exquisite beauty and depth. Steven Caton weaves an ethnography of life in Yemen-- in an accounting of particular events of abduction, imprisonment, and betrayal-- that is as delicate as a spider'' s web. His keen sensibility and his gift for tuning into the poetic dimension of spoken Arabic make the reader part of the sanctuary where he lived, a witness on the roads he traveled. Yet the book is also a theoretical intervention of profound importance on key questions about ethnography and its relation to memory; the relationbetween what is an event and what is ordinary; who or what the anthropologist is; and, ultimately, the question that haunts the book-- what is home?" -- Veena Das, Chair, Department of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University ""Yemen Chronicle" is an extraordinary work-- beautifully crafted, deeply subtle, filled with an astonishing cultural sensibility. Caton''s poignant portrait of lost friendships and the social suffering caused by cycles of tribal revenge killings is a triumph both of ethnography and of deeply personal narrative. The thrice-told tale of the abduction of two young Yemeni girls and the miserable fate of their abductor goes from page-turning mystery to seeming epic tragedy to something, two decades on, that seems like political intrigue of the most dubious and farcical variety. In thirty years of being an assiduous reader of ethnography, I''ve read nothing like it. The tone and mood of longing for deep connections in "Yemen Chronicle" often reminds me of E.M. Foster''s "Passage to India," And then again, its story of an American observer getting caught up in local warfare reads like a reporter''s dispatch from the front. Muhammad, Caton''s friend and collaborator in translating tribal poetry, steps right out of the pages, as if he were unwilling to remain the object of anthropological enquiry and were demanding the same treatment of his complex subjectivity that Caton gave his own inner fears and aspirations. Few ethnographers have ever shown their research subjects in such subtle, passionate, and vulnerable depth. Far from being a Lawrence of Arabia (about whom he himself has written a book), Caton is a paradigm of postmodern, postcolonial, postalmost-everything irony, contradiction, misunderstandings and anti-heroism. The experience of imprisonment in a Yemeni national security fortress is a story within a story that could be a film: half action feature, half comedy. The ending of the book balances precariously between grief, frustration and gathering understanding--as lived experience is and should be. The sense of longing and regret is as strong in "Yemen Chronicle" as the wonder and skepticism. Such contradictions come together in the character of the anthropologist as anti-hero, perturbing and disturbing the very fabric of the social life he is there to study, his experience like
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Dewey Decimal
953.05/2
Synopsis
A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. "Yemen Chronicle is Caton's touchingly candid acount of the extraordinary events that ensued. One day a neighboring sheikh came angrily to the sanctuary village where Caton lived, claiming that a man there had abducted his daughter and another girl. This was cause for war, and even though the culprit was captured and mediation efforts launched, tribal hostilities simmered for months. A man who was helping to resolve the dispute befriended Caton, showing him how the poems recited by the belligerents were connected to larger Arab conflicts and giving him refuge when the sanctuary was attacked. Then, unexpectedly, Caton himself was arrested and jailed for being an American spy. It was 2001 before Caton could return toYemen to untangle the story of why he had been imprisoned and what had happened to the missing girls. Placing his contradictory experiences in their full context, "Yemen Chronicle is not only an invaluable assessment of classical ethnographic procedures but also a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture., A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict.Yemen Chronicleis Caton's touchingly candid acount of the extraordinary events that ensued. One day a neighboring sheikh came angrily to the sanctuary village where Caton lived, claiming that a man there had abducted his daughter and another girl. This was cause for war, and even though the culprit was captured and mediation efforts launched, tribal hostilities simmered for months. A man who was helping to resolve the dispute befriended Caton, showing him how the poems recited by the belligerents were connected to larger Arab conflicts and giving him refuge when the sanctuary was attacked. Then, unexpectedly, Caton himself was arrested and jailed for being an American spy. It was 2001 before Caton could return toYemen to untangle the story of why he had been imprisoned and what had happened to the missing girls. Placing his contradictory experiences in their full context,Yemen Chronicleis not only an invaluable assessment of classical ethnographic procedures but also a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture., In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. Soon he was embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. This is Caton's touchingly candid account of the extraordinary events that ensued.
LC Classification Number
DS247.Y44C38 2005

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