Text and Discourse Analysis
(By Associate Professor Jacob Høigilt)
Blommaert, Jan. “Context Is/as Critique.” Critique of Anthropology 21, no. 1 (2001): 13–32.
Fowler, Roger. Language in the News. Discourse and Ideology in the Press. London: Routledge, 1991. [Chapters 1, 5, 7] [Electronically available via Fronter].
Høigilt, Jacob. Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt. London: Routledge, 2011. [Chapter 4] [Electronically available via Fronter].
McKee, Alan. Textual Analysis. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003.
Skinner, Quentin. Visions of Politics: Regarding Method, Volume 1. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [Chapters 5-6] [Electronically available via Fronter].
Fieldwork Methods
(By Professor Berit Thorbjørnsrud)
Tedlock, Barbara. “From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography”. Journal of Anthropological Research 47, no. 1 (1991): 69-94.
El-Solh, Camillia Fawzi. “Gender, Class, and Origin. Aspects of Role During Fieldwork in Arab society”. In Arab Women in the Field. Studying Your Own Society, edited by Soraya Altorki & Camillia Fawzi El-Solh. 91-115. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1988. [Electronically available via Fronter]
Romano, David. “Conducting Research in the Middle East’s Conflict Zones”. Political Science and Politics 39, no. 3 (2006): 439-441.
Sanghera, Gurchathen S. and Suruci Thapar-Björkert. “Methodological dilemmas: gatekeepers and positionality in Bradford”. Ethical and Racial Studies 31, no. 3 (2008): 543-562.
Roulston, Kathryn; Kathleen deMarrais and Jamie B. Lewis. “Learning to Interview in the Social Sciences”. Qualitative Inquiry 9, no. 4 (2003): 643-668.
Lund-Johansen, Marie Brokstad. Fighting for Citizenship in Kuwait. MA Thesis. University of Oslo, 2014. [Chapter 1.5-1-7: “Explaining Bidoon mobilisation: Methodological approach”, page 16-30]. [Electronically available via Fronter]
Brown, Michael F. “Cultural Relativism 2.0”. Current Anthropology 49, no. 3 (2008): 363-383.
Abdel-Fadil, Mona. Living the ‘Message’ and Empowering Muslim Selves: A Behind the Screens study of Online Islam. PhD dissertation. University of Oslo, 2012. [Only “‘Studying sideways’: reflections on methodology”, page 9-61]. [Electronically available via Fronter]
Narayan, Uma. “Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and ‘Death by Culture’. Thinking About Dowry-Murders in India and Domestic-Violence Murders in the United States”. In Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism (New York: Routledge, 1997), 81-118. [Electronically available via Fronter]
Suleiman, Yasir and Paul Anderson. "Conducting Fieldwork in the Middle East’: Report of a Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh on 12 February 2007". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35, no. 2 (2008): 151-171.
Aberbach, Joel D. and Bert A. Rockman. “Conducting and Coding Elite Interviews", PS: Political Science and Politics 35, no. 4 (2002): 673-676.
McNeill, Desmond. “Statistics—the Development Researcher's Guilty Secret”, Forum for Development Studies 27, no. 1 (2000): 145-150.
Valenzuela, Dapsury & Pallavi Shrivastava. “Interview as a method for qualitative research”. Arizona State University (undated). Student presentation.
(270 pages)
Archive Studies and Historical Methodology
(By Professor Brynjar Lia)
Methods in Historical Research (Seminar 1 & 2)
Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods. Ithaca & London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2001 [Chapter 1-5, pages 17-150].
Carr, David. “Narrative Explanation and Its Malcontents”. History and Theory 47, no. 1 (2008): 19-30.
Dibble, Vernon K. “Four Types of Inference from Documents to Events”. History and Theory 3, no. 2 (1963): 203-221.
Skocpol, Theda and Margaret Somers. "The Uses of Comparative History in. Macrosocial Inquiry." Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, no. 2 (1980): 174-197.
Shepart, Todd. “‘History Is Past Politics’? Archives, ‘Tainted Evidence,’ and the Return of the State.” The American Historical Review 115, no. 2 (2010):474-483.
Findlay, Cassie. "People, records and power: what archives can learn from WikiLeaks." Archives and Manuscripts 41, no. 1 (2013): 7-22.
Sources, Archives and Archival Research in the Middle East (Seminar 3 & 4)
Amour, Philipp O. “Practical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges of Field Research in the Middle East”. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 45, no. 3 (2012): 143-149.
Omar, Hussein. “The State of the Archive: Manipulating Memory in Modern Egypt and the Writing of Egyptological Histories.” In: Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures, edited by William Carruthers (175-83). New York, Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. [available in Fronter].
Peled, Kobi. "Oral testimonies, archival sources, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War: A close look at the occupation of a Galilean village". Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture 33, no. 1 (2014): 41-61.
Sayigh, Rosemary. “Oral history, colonialist dispossession, and the state: the Palestinian case”. Settler Colonial Studies 5, no. 3 (2015): 193-204.
Frampton, Martyn and Ehud Rosen. “Reading the Runes? The United States and the Muslim Brotherhood as seen through the Wikileaks Cables”, The Historical Journal 56, no. 3 (2013): 827-856. (321 pages)
Lebovich, Andrea. “The Challenge of Contemporary Historical Research in Algeria”. Textures du temps (10 August 2015). [5 pages].
Edmund Burke III. “The Creation of the Moroccan Colonial Archive, 1880–1930”. History and Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2007): 1-9.
Lydon, Ghislaine. “Slavery, Exchange and Islamic Law: A Glimpse from the Archives of Mali and Mauritania”. African Economic History, no. 33 (2005): 117-148.
Topics in Linguistic Studies
(By Professor Gunvor Mejdell)
Seminar I:
Halvor Eifring & Rolf Theil: Language and Languages, chap. 4: Linguistic typology (19 p) and chap. 6 Language Contact (30p) 50 p. [Electronically available].
Seminar II:
Coulmas, Florian: Sociolinguistics - The Study of Speakers´Choices, 2005. chapters 1 (Introduction: notions of language) and 8 (Diglossia and bilingualism: functional restrictions on language choice), pp. 1-14, 126-145. 35 p.
Mejdell, Gunvor. 2006. Codeswitching. EALL online (ca. 8 p.)
For students reading Arabic
(By Professor Gunvor Mejdell)
Palva, Heikki: Arabic dialects - classification. EALL online (ca. 12 p.)
Ferguson, Charles: Diglossia. Word 15, (1959), pp.325-40. (16 p.)
Ibrahim, Muhammad H.: "Standard and Prestige Language: A Problem in Arabic Sociolinguistics", Anthropological Linguistics, 28 (1) (Spring, 1986), pp. 115-126. ( 12p. )
Manal A. Ismail, "Sociocultural Identity and Arab Women's and Men's Code-Choice in the Context of Patriarchy", Anthropological Linguistics, 54 (3) (Fall 2012), pp. 261-279.
Walters, Keith. Language attitudes. EALL online (ca. 15 p.)
For students reading Hebrew
(By Professor Lutz Eberhard Edzard)
Alvestad, Silje and Lutz Edzard. 2009. "The evidence of the living language: normative forms vs. spoken modern Hebrew". In: Alvestad, Silje and Lutz Edzard. Sonority, Optimality and the Hebrew p"ch Forms, pp. 163-201. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz;
Bennett, Patrick. 2006. Comparative Semitic Linguistics. A Manual. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns;
Bergsträsser, Gotthelf and Peter Daniels. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text specimens and grammatical sketches. Winons Lake: Eisenbrauns;
Huehnergard, John. 2002. "Comparative Semitic Linguistics." In: Semitic Linguistics. The state of the art at the turn of the twenty-first century, ed. Shlomo Izre'el, pp. 119-150. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns;
Kogan, Leonid. 2015. Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses. Berlin: de Gruyter;
Lipinski, Edward. 2000 (2nd ed.). Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar.Leuven: Peeters.
For students reading Turkish
(By Professor Bernt Brendemoen)
Johanson, Lars. Discoveries on the Turkic Linguistic Map. Stockholm and Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Publications 5, 2001.
Golden, Peter B.. “The Turkic Peoples. A Historical Sketch”. In The Turkish Languages, edited by Lars Johanson and Éva Ágnes Csató. 16-29. Abingdon & New York: Routledge 1998 and later), pp. 16–29. [Electronically available via Fronter].
Johanson, Lars. “The Structure of Turkic”. In The Turkish Languages, edited by Lars Johanson and Éva Ágnes Csató. 30-66. Abingdon & New York: Routledge 1998 and later. [Electronically available via Fronter].
Brendemoen, Bernt: “Prestige register vs. common speech in Ottoman Turkish”. In: High vs. Low and Mixed Varieties, edited by Gunvor Mejdell and Lutz Edzard. 123-132. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. [Electronically available via Fronter].
Topics in Literature Studies
(By Professor Stephan Guth)
1- Fact versus fiction. The “added value” of narrative, or: Why literature matters. The role of the writer in the MENA region.
Culler, Jonathan: Literary Theory: A very short introduction. Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. => ch. 2: “What is Literature and Does it Matter?”, pp. 18-41.
Abbott, H. Porter: “Narrative and Truth”. = Ch. 11 in id., The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, pp. 145-59.
Klemm, Verena: “Different Notions of Commitment (iltizām) and Committed Literature (al-adab al-multazim) in the Literary Circles of the Mashriq”. Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 3 (1) (2000), pp. 51-62.
Mehrez, Samia: “Introduction”. In: S.M., Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction, Cairo: AUC Press, 1994, pp. 1-16 and 147-48 (notes)
2- Literary history (overview), themes and genres in modern Arabic fiction
Guth, Stephan. 2013. “Novel, Modern Arabic”. In: Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition (online).
Guth, Stephan. 2011. “From Water-Carrying Camels to Modern Story-Tellers, or How “riwāya” Came to Mean ‘novel’: A History of an Encounter of Concepts.” In: Borders and Beyond: Crossings and Transitions in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. K. Eksell & S. Guth, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011: 147-79.
Optional:
Casini, Lorenzo. 2011. “The Nation, the Narrative Subject, and the European Theme in the Development of the Egyptian Novel”. In: From New Values to New Aesthetics: Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. S. Guth & G. Ramsay, vol. I: From Modernism to the 1980s. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011: 59-70.
Hafez, Sabry. 1976. “The Egyptian Novel in the Sixties”. Journal of Arabic Literature, 7 (1976), pp. 68-84.
Guth, Stephan. 2011. “Literary Currents in Egypt since the Beginning/Mid-1960s”. In: From New Values to New Aesthetics: Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. S. Guth & G. Ramsay, vol. 1: From Modernism to the 1980s, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011: 85-112.
Guth, Stephan.(2007 [2008]). “Individuality Lost, Fun Gained: Some Recurrent Motifs in Late Twentieth-Century Arabic and Turkish Novels”. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 7 (2), pp. 25-49.
3- West reads East reads West: Orientalism/Occidentalism. Relation to the West in MAL
El-Enany, Rasheed. 2009. “Theme and Identity in Postcolonial Arabic Writing”. In: Chewing over the West: Occidental Narratives on Non-Western Readings, ed. Doris Jedamski, Amsterdam: Rodopi (CrossCultures; 119): 1-36.
Casini, Lorenzo. 2008. “Beyond Occidentalism: Europe and the Self in Present-Day Arabic Narrative Discourse”. EUI Working Papers RSCAS 2008/30.
Holmberg, Bo. 2006. “Adab and Arabic Literature”. In: Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective, vol. 1: Notions of Literature Across Cultures, ed. by A. Pettersson [et al.], Berlin [etc.]: de Gruyter, 2006: 181-205.
Rooke, Tetz. 2011. “The Emergence of the Arabic Bestseller: Arabic Fiction and World Literature”. In: From New Values to New Aesthetics: Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. S. Guth & G. Ramsay, vol. II: Postmodernism and thereafter, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011: 201-13.
Allan, Michael. 2012. “How Adab Became Literary: Formalism, Orientalism and the Institutions of World Literature”. Journal of Arabic Literature, 43: 172-96.
4- Starter kit for the analysis of narrative texts
Culler, Jonathan. 1997. “Narrative” = ch. 6 in his Literary Theory: A very short introduction, Oxford UP 1997: 82-93.
Propp, Vladimir. 2008. Morphology of the Folktale. 19th paperback edition, Austin, TX : UT Press, 2008. => ch. 3: “The functions of Dramatis Personae” (pp. 25-65).
Herman, David (ed.). 2009. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. 3rd ed., Cambridge UP. => ch. 3: H. Porter Abbott, “Story, plot, and narration”, pp. 39-51. / => ch. 7: M. Jahn, “Focalization”, pp. 94-108.
Guth, Stephan. Working sheet “How to analyze a piece of fiction”. (1p.)