This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Isla...
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either -religious- or -secular- discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the 'secular' and the 'religious' as polarizing...
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either -religious- o...
