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.^{[2][3][4][5][6] [7][8][9][10]}

References

1. Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005), p. 332.
2. Review by Edith Penrose in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25:1/3 (1962), pp. 611-612.
3. Review by Victor Ayoub in American Sociological Review 28:5 (1963), pp. 866-867.
4. Review by Robert Cresswell in Études rurales 11 (1963), pp. 111-113.
5. Review by W. E. Willmott in Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 29:2 (1963), pp. 261-263.
6. Review by E. L. Peters in Man 65 (1965), pp. 94-95.
7. Review by Malcolm Quint in Middle East Journal 17:1/2 (1963), pp. 172-173.
8. Review by A. S. Tritton in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1963), pp. 91-92.
9. Review by Peter Lienhardt in American Anthropologist, New Series 66:1 (1964), pp. 164-166.
10. Review by Maxime Rodinson in L'Homme 5:1 (1965), pp. 127-132.