About the Author

Julie Peteet is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville.

Reviews

"A book of serious scholarship and theoretical insight that is also a call to do something about this grim situation."-Journal of Palestine Studies "A sophisticated and nuanced study of how Palestinian refugees have negotiated notions of identity, and visions both of their past and their future, amidst various coercive forces inherent to refugee camp life."-American Historical Review