Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography

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Unique, timely, and up-to-date, this volume is the first comprehensive bibliography on Kurdish culture and society. Compiled to help students, educators, researchers, and policy makers find relevant information with ease, the book includes more than 930 items in four major languages--Arabic, English, French, and German. This work covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art, communication, demography, travel, economy, education, ethnicity, health, journalism, language, literature, migration, music, religion, social structure, urbanization, and women's studies. The volume includes books and book chapters, journal articles, Ph.D. dissertations, conference papers, articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and important Web sites. Essays provide an overview of Kurdish society as well as surveys of Kurdish life in Syria, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and Lebanon. An invaluable guide for researchers interested in the Kurds and Kurdistan, this book will aid in the location of information that is highly diverse and scattered. With its focus on a timely subject, this book fills a major gap in the bibliographic literature.

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It will be an indispensable resource for all scholars and people interested not just in Kurdish affairs, but in the history, societies, and cultures of the Middle East. Recommended for university, college, and major urban libraries. * Choice *
[A] welcome addition to the scholarly apparatus of Kurdish studies. * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *
Kurdish Culture and Society will be a valuable tool for researchers and students of Kurdish culture. * MESA Bulletin *
This annotated bibliography on Kurdish culture and society is the first of its kind, both in terms of the language of the sources and the subjects it covers. . . . [T]his bibliography will fill a gap in many libraries, both becuase very few major universities treat Kurdish studies as an independent academic subject and because a great part of the sources are contributions made in non-Kurdish contexts. * Middle East Journal *

Author Bio

Lokman I. Meho is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Meho is the author of two earlier bibliographies, The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1997) and Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001). Kelly L. Maglaughlin is a PhD student at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.