Shakir Mustafa Salim

S. M. Salim
Born 1919
Died 1985
Nationality Iraqi
Fields Social anthropology
Institutions Baghdad University
Alma mater University College, London
Known for Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta (1962)

Shakir Mustafa Salim (1919-1985) was a famous Iraqi social anthropologist who taught in the Department of Sociology at Baghdad University.[1]

He compiled A Dictionary of Anthropology: English-Arabic (1981).

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

Salim is best known for his groundbreaking ethnographic work, Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, submitted as his doctoral thesis in University College, London (1955), first published in Arabic in Baghdad in two volumes (1956-1957), and subsequently published in English as number 23 in the series London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology (London: Athlone Press, 1962). This was an anthropological report on a year spent among the Marsh Arabs of Ech-Chibayish, Iraq, in 1953.

The work was reviewed by:

References

  1. Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005), p. 332.


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