- Donald Cole (anthropologist)
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For other people of the same name, see Donald Cole.
Donald Powell Cole (March 21, 1941 in Bryan, Texas) is a noted anthropologist at the American University in Cairo.[1] He joined the university in 1971. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Cole has studied Arab nomadic cultures, such as the Al Murrah, in his The Social and Economic Structure of the Al Murrah: A Saudi Arabian Bedouin Tribe, his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley.
Cole, an American expatriate, currently resides in Cairo.[2][3][4]
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Academic Positions
- The American University in Cairo
Assistant Professor, 1971–73; 1974–75 Associate Professor, 1975–86 Professor, 1986 to 2007 Emeritus Professor, 2007 onward
- University of California, Berkeley
Acting Assistant Professor, Spring Quarter 1971 Visiting Assistant Professor, 1973–74
- The University of Chicago
Visiting Associate Professor, Winter and Spring Quarters 1976
- University of Texas, Austin
Visiting Associate Professor, Spring Semester 1983, plus several summer sessions Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle East Studies, Spring Semester 1987
- Georgetown University
Visiting Researcher, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Spring Semester 1995
Books
- Road to Islām: From Texas to Saudi Arabia and Egypt / Donald Powell Cole. Cairo: Al-Madinah Press, 2010.
- Bedouins of the Empty Quarter / Donald Powell Cole. New Jersey: Aldine Transaction, 2010. ISBN 9780202363578
- Bedouin, settlers, and holiday makers : Egypt's changing northwest cast / Donald P. Cole, Soraya Altorki. 1998. ISBN 9774244842
- Investors and Workers in the Western Desert of Egypt: An Exploratory Survey / Donald Powell Cole, Naiem A. Sherbiny and Nadia Makary Girgis. Cairo: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 15, Monograph 3. 1992.
- Arabian oasis city : the transformation of ʻUnayzah / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1989. ISBN 0292785178
- Saudi Arabian Bedouin: An Assessment of their Needs / Donald Powell Cole and Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Cairo: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 5, Monograph 1. 1978.
- Nomads of the nomads : the Āl Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter / Donald Powell Cole. 1975 ISBN 0202011178 (hardcover), ISBN 0202011186 (paperback)
Other Published works
- 1971 “Al Murrah Bedouin: The ‘Pure Ones’ Rove Arabia’s Empty Sands.” In Nomads of the World, 52-71. Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society.
- 1973 “Bedouin of the Oil Fields.” Natural History LXXXII(9):94-103.
- 1973 “The Enmeshment of Nomads in Saudi Arabian Society: The Case of the Al Murrah.” In The Desert and the Sown: Nomads in the Wider Society, ed. Cynthia Nelson, 113-128. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, Research Series, Number 21.
- 1980 “Pastoral Nomads in a Rapidly Changing Economy: The Case of Saudi Arabia.” In Social and Economic Development in the Arab Gulf, ed. Timothy Niblock, 106-121. London: Croom Helm.
- 1982 “Tribal and Non-Tribal Structures among the Bedouin of Saudi Arabia.” Al-Abhath XXX:77-94.
- 1984 “Alliance and Descent in the Middle East and the ‘Problem’ of Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage.” In Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, eds. Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart, 169-186. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- 1984 “Modern Egypt.” Discovery 8(3):8-12. (Robert A. Fernea, coauthor).
- 1985 “The Bedouin in a Changing World.” Cairo Today 6(9):23-31.
- 1990 “Mujtama’a ma qabl an-naft fi al-jazirah al-‘arabiyyah: fawdah qabiliyyah am mujtama’a muraqab.” Al-Mustaqbal al-‘arabi 11:41-53. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1992 “Was Arabia Tribal? A Reinterpretation of the Pre-Oil Society.” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies XV(4):71-87.
- 1993 “Commerce et production dans le nord de l’Aarabie centrale: changement et developpment a ‘Unayzah.” In Steppes d’Arabies: Etats, pasteurs, agriculture et commercants: le devinir des zones seches, eds. Riccardo Bocco, Ronald Jaubert, and Francoise Metral, 247-265. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; Geneva: Cahiers de L’I.U.E.D. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1994 “Private Sector Enterprises in Desert Development in Egypt.” In Land Reclamation and Development in Egypt, ed. Mohammed Atif Kishk, 401-414. Minia: Minia University Press.
- 1996 “Land Tenure, Bedouin, and Development in the Northwest Coast.” In Sustainable Development in Egypt: Current and Emerging Challenges, 108-110. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, Office of Graduate Studies and Research.
- 1997 “Change in Saudi Arabia: A View from ‘Paris of Najd.’” In Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power and Development, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 29-52. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1997 “‘Unayzah, le ‘Paris du Najd’: le changement en Arabie saoudite.” Monde arabe: Maghreb-Machrek 156:3-22. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1998 “Guide to the MT09 Libyan Bedouin File.” HRAF Collection of Ethnography, Installment 47 (CD-ROM). New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
- 1998 “Agro-Pastoralism and Development in Egypt’s Northwest Coast.” In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard, 318-333. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1998 “The Northwest Coast: A Part of Rural Egypt?” In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard, 130-143. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 1998 “Twenty Years of Desert Development in Egypt.” Cairo Papers in Social Science 21(4):44-54. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
- 2000 “Production and Trade in North Central Arabia: Change and Development in ‘Unayzah.” In The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East, eds. Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam, 145-159. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2001 “Saudi Arabia.” In Countries and their Cultures, eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, 1927-1939. New York: Macmillan Reference
- 2002 “Riyadh.” Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, 4:38-45. Danbury, CT: Grolier.
- 2003 “Where Have the Bedouin Gone?” Anthropological Quarterly 76(2):235-267.
- 2005 “Al Murrah Tribes in the Days of King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz.”
- 2006 “New Homes, New Occupations, New Pastoralism: Al Murrah Bedouin, 1968-2003.” In Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century, ed. Dawn Chatty, 370-392. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- 2006 “Land and Identity among Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin: Egypt’s Northwest Coast.” In Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century, ed. Dawn Chatty, 634-653. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Soraya Altorki, coauthor).
Published Academic Interviews
- 2000 Mark Allen Peterson. “The Long Walk II: ‘For as long as I can remember Anthropology has been reinventing itself’: An interview with Donald Powell Cole.” Nomadic Peoples 4(2):7-20.
- 2002 Hussein Fahim. “Hadith anthrubulujiya maa duktur Donald Cole” [Anthropological discussion with Dr. Donald Cole]. Journal of the Social Sciences. Kuwait: Kuwait University, Fall 2002.
References
- ^ Faculty page at the American University in Cairo
- ^ Dickey, Christopher (December 26, 1985). "A romantic Middle East image dies as Datsuns replace camels". The Toronto Star: p. D.24. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Donald+Cole%22+anthropologist+source%3A%22-newswire%22+source%3A%22-wire%22+source%3A%22-presswire%22+source%3A%22-PR%22+source%3A%22-press%22+source%3A%22-release%22+source%3A%22-wikipedia%22&btnG=Search+Archives&scoring=a. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ Associated Press (October 6, 1997). "Crowded Egyptians would like to go with the flow". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Google News Archive): p. 7A. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O6QaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ti4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3346,415611&dq=donald-cole+anthropologist&hl=en. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ Schneider, Howard (May 7, 2004). "In Breaking Taboos, Photos Add Insult to Injury". The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): p. A.24. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/629798911.html?dids=629798911:629798911&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+07%2C+2004&author=Howard+Schneider&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=In+Breaking+Taboos%2C+Photos+Add+Insult+to+Injury&pqatl=google. Retrieved 28 January 2010. ""The idea is to humiliate people in ways . . . that really affect their manhood, their identity, their notions of shame," said Donald Cole, an anthropology ..."
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