Mandana Limbert

forthcoming, edited volume with Elizabeth Ferry, The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities, Santa Fe: School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series.

forthcoming, “In the Dreamtime of Oil: Depletion, Development and Doom in Oman” In The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities, edited by Mandana Limbert and Elizabeth Ferry. Santa Fe: School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series.

forthcoming, “The Cultivation of Virtuous Citizens and Religious Goodness in Omani Schools” In Constructs of Inclusion and Exclusion in Middle East Textbooks, edited by Eleanor Doumato. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

forthcoming, “In the Ruins of Power: reconstructed forts and crumbling walls in an Omani Town” Social Text.

2006. “Women, Gender and Spirit Possession”, In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

2005. “Personal Memories, Revolutionary States and Indian Ocean Migrations” MIT-EJMES. 5:21-33.

2005. “Gender, Religious Knowledge and Education in an Omani Town” In Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf, edited by Paul Dresch and James Piscatori. London: I.B. Taurus.

2005. “Women, Gender and the Construction of Modern Social Hierarchies” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

2002. “Visions of Iran: Persian Language Television in the United States” In Social Constructions of Nationalism, edited by Fatma M. Gocek. Albany: State University of New York Press.

2001. “The Senses of Water in an Omani Town” Social Text. 19(3): 35-55.

2000. Review, “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization” by Arjun Appadurai. Etnosistemi 7: 101-103.

1999. “Placing Tradition: The Geopoetics of Town and Country in Oman.” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 9(2): 300-318.

with J. Dickinson, 1998. “Introduction.” In: Linguistic Form and Social Action. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 13. Ann Arbor: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Mandana Limbert Assistant Professor Ph.D. Michigan 2002
	Office:	Powdermaker Hall 315F
	Phone:	(718) 997-5526
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	E-mail:	Mandana.Limbert@qc.cuny.edu

Interests:	Courses Taught:
Cultural Anthropology Middle East – Oman Arab Societies Anthropology of Memory Historical Anthropology Religion, Modernity, Colonialism	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (101) Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (201) Peoples of the Middle East (212) Sex, Gender and Culture (222) Contemporary Anthropological Theory (320)

Research Interests:
Mandana Limbert graduated from the University of Michigan in 2002 with a doctorate in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies. Her work focuses on Oman and the Indian Ocean and is based on ethnographic and archival research in Oman, Zanzibar, and London. Her dissertation, which she is currently revising into a book manuscript, entitled “Of Ties and Time: Gender, Sociality and Modernity in an Omani Town”, examines the management of gendered sociality and domesticity at the juncture of shifting religiosities and development projects and discourses. She is currently also beginning a new project on notions of identity, the history of servitude and marriage practices among Omanis in Oman and Zanzibar.
Selected Publications:
forthcoming, edited volume with Elizabeth Ferry, The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities, Santa Fe: School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series. forthcoming, “In the Dreamtime of Oil: Depletion, Development and Doom in Oman” In The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities, edited by Mandana Limbert and Elizabeth Ferry. Santa Fe: School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series. forthcoming, “The Cultivation of Virtuous Citizens and Religious Goodness in Omani Schools” In Constructs of Inclusion and Exclusion in Middle East Textbooks, edited by Eleanor Doumato. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. forthcoming, “In the Ruins of Power: reconstructed forts and crumbling walls in an Omani Town” Social Text. 2006. “Women, Gender and Spirit Possession”, In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2005. “Personal Memories, Revolutionary States and Indian Ocean Migrations” MIT-EJMES. 5:21-33. 2005. “Gender, Religious Knowledge and Education in an Omani Town” In Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf, edited by Paul Dresch and James Piscatori. London: I.B. Taurus. 2005. “Women, Gender and the Construction of Modern Social Hierarchies” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2002. “Visions of Iran: Persian Language Television in the United States” In Social Constructions of Nationalism, edited by Fatma M. Gocek. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2001. “The Senses of Water in an Omani Town” Social Text. 19(3): 35-55. 2000. Review, “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization” by Arjun Appadurai. Etnosistemi 7: 101-103. 1999. “Placing Tradition: The Geopoetics of Town and Country in Oman.” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 9(2): 300-318. with J. Dickinson, 1998. “Introduction.” In: Linguistic Form and Social Action. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 13. Ann Arbor: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
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