Dale F Eickelman
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Dale F Eickelman is currently Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, USA. He is fascinated by how religion coupled with changing ideas of education and both traditional and innovational means of communication and persuasion come together in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to create new social forms. Another ongoing interest is the interplay between secrecy and publicity in religious movements, governments, universities, and everyday life.
Research Interest
Anthropological theory and the study of complex societies, The anthropology 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, Religion and politics in the Middle East and Central Asia, secrecy and deception, political intelligence, higher education in the Arab world
Publications
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Media in Islamic and Area Studies: Personal Encounters (2011) Oriente Moderno 91: 13-22.
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Social Science under Siege: The Middle East (2012) In Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn, ed. Haim Hazan and Esther Herzog. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 213-27.
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The Modern Face of Ibadism in Oman (2014) in On Ibadism, ed. Angeliki Ziyaka (Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 151-63.
