Shakir Mustafa Salim (1919–1985) was an Iraqi

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who taught in the Department of Sociology at

Baghdad University The University of Baghdad (UOB) ( ar, جامعة بغداد ''Jāmi'at Baghdād'') is the largest university in Iraq, tenth largest in the Arab world, and the largest university in the Arab world outside Egypt. Nomenclature Both University ...

.Eric Davis, ''Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq'' (University of California Press, 2005), p. 332. He compiled ''A Dictionary of Anthropology: English-Arabic'' (1981).

''Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta''

Salim is best known for his groundbreaking

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work, ''Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta'', submitted as his doctoral thesis in

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(1955), first published in Arabic in Baghdad in two volumes (1956-1957), and subsequently published in English as number 23 in the series

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Monographs on Social Anthropology (London: Athlone Press, 1962). This was an anthropological report on a year spent among the Marsh Arabs of

Al-Chibayish Al-Chibayish is a town on the Euphrates River in Al-Chibayish District, Dhi Qar governorate, in southern Iraq. It is the capital of its eponymous district. Al-Chibayish is inhabited primarily by Marsh Arabs of the Beni Isad tribe. Al-Chibayish h ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

, in 1953. The work was reviewed by: *

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in ''

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'' 25:1/3 (1962), pp. 611–612. *Victor Ayoub in ''

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'' 28:5 (1963), pp. 866–867. *Robert Cresswell in ''Études rurales'' 11 (1963), pp. 111–113. *W. E. Willmott in '' Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science'' 29:2 (1963), pp. 261–263. *

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in ''

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'' 65 (1965), pp. 94–95. *Malcolm Quint in ''

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'' 17:1/2 (1963), pp. 172–173. * A. S. Tritton in ''

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'', No. 1/2 (Apr., 1963), pp. 91–92. * Peter Lienhardt in ''

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'', New Series 66:1 (1964), pp. 164–166. *Maxime Rodinson in '' L'Homme'' 5:1 (1965), pp. 127–132.

References

1919 births 1985 deaths Iraqi anthropologists Academic staff of the University of Baghdad Alumni of University College London 20th-century anthropologists Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom {{anthropologist-stub