Mundy, Martha


Dr Martha Mundy  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

Reader in Anthropology

Experience keywords:

historical anthropology; legal anthropology; agrarian systems; anthropology of Islam; Arab world; kinship and family; anthropology

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Jordan; Yemen; Lebanon; Syria; Palestine

Languages:

Arabic [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6242

Publications

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2010

Mundy, Martha (2010) Islamic law and the order of state. In: Sluglett, Peter and Weber, Stefan, (eds.) Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman rule: essays in honour of Abdul Karim Rafeq . Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 397-417. ISBN 9789004181939

2007

Mundy, Martha and Smith, Richard Saumarez (2007) Governing property, making the modern state: law, administration and production in Ottoman Syria. I.B Tauris, London. ISBN 1845112911

2004

Mundy, Martha (2004) The state of property: late Ottoman Southern Syria (the Kaza Aclun, 1875 - 1918). In: Islamoglu, Huri, (ed.) Constituting modernity: private property in the East and West. I.B. Tauris, London, pp. 214-247. ISBN 1860649963

Mundy, Martha (2004) Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military 'fief', from the Mamluks to the Ottomans. In: Pottage, Alain and Mundy, Martha, (eds.) Law, anthropology and the constitution of the social: making persons and things. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 142-165.

Mundy, Martha and Pottage, R.A, (eds.) (2004) Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social: making persons and things. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0521539455

2003

Mundy, Martha (2003) Al-mahr zaytuna: property and family in the hills facing Palestine (1880 - 1940). In: Doumani, Beshara, (ed.) Family history in the Middle East: household, property and gender. State University of New York Press, Albany, US, pp. 113-150. ISBN 079145679X

2002

Mundy, Martha and Mundy, Martha (2002) Law and anthropology. Ashgate Pub Co, Aldershot, USA. ISBN 0754620824

2000

Mundy, Martha and Musallam, Basim, (eds.) (2000) The transformation of nomadic society. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521770576

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