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| abu lughod writing against culture: Anthropology in Theory Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders, 2014-01-28 This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theory Revised and updated to reflect an on-going strength and diversity of the discipline in recent years, with new readings pointing to innovative directions in the development of anthropological research Identifies crucial concepts that reflect the practice of engaging with theory, particular ways of thinking, analyzing and reflecting that are unique to anthropology Includes excerpts of seminal anthropological works, key classic and contemporary debates in the discipline, and cutting-edge new theorizing Reveals broader debates in the social sciences, including the relationship between society and culture; language and cultural meanings; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and trans-locality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology |
| abu lughod writing against culture: The Cultural Geography Reader Timothy Oakes, Patricia L. Price, 2008-03-03 The Cultural Geography Reader draws together fifty-two classic and contemporary abridged readings that represent the scope of the discipline and its key concepts. Readings have been selected based on their originality, accessibility and empirical focus, allowing students to grasp the conceptual and theoretical tools of cultural geography through the grounded research of leading scholars in the field. Each of the eight sections begins with an introduction that discusses the key concepts, its history and relation to cultural geography and connections to other disciplines and practices. Six to seven abridged book chapters and journal articles, each with their own focused introductions, are also included in each section. The readability, broad scope, and coverage of both classic and contemporary pieces from the US and UK makes The Cultural Geography Reader relevant and accessible for a broad audience of undergraduate students and graduate students alike. It bridges the different national traditions in the US and UK, as well as introducing the span of classic and contemporary cultural geography. In doing so, it provides the instructor and student with a versatile yet enduring benchmark text. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu-Lughod, 2013-11-12 Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Veiled Sentiments Lila Abu-Lughod, 2016-09-06 First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Writing Women's Worlds Lila Abu-Lughod, 2008-04-07 Extrait de la couverture : In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Beyond Writing Culture Olaf Zenker, Karsten Kumoll, 2010-05-01 Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus’ volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and representational practices rather than maintaining the original narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not only concerned with ‘the ethnographic Other’, but with representation in general. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Women Writing Culture Gary A. Olson, Elizabeth Hirsh, 1995-09-28 Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed include feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding; cultural critic and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; noted American theorist of women's epistemology Mary Belenky; African-American cultural critic bell hooks; Luce Irigaray, a major exponent of French Feminism; and Jean-Francois Lyotard, a philosopher and cultural critic who has helped to define the postmodern condition. Together, these interviews afford significant insight into these eminent scholars' perspectives on women, writing, and culture, and explore how women write culture through the various postmodern discourses in which they engage. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Dramas of Nationhood Lila Abu-Lughod, 2005 Television is the cultural form that binds together the nation of Egypt. This text analyses Egyptian TV, not only to provide an understanding of the effect of the medium on Egyptian people, but also to examine TVs greater role in culture. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Ethnography and Schools Yali Zou, Enrique T. Trueba, 2002-06-25 The ethnographic experience is an indelible venture that continuously redefines one's life. Bringing together important cross-currents in the national debate on education, this book introduces the student or practitioner to the challenges, resources, and skills informing ethnographic research today. From the first chapter describing the cultural foundations of ethnographic research, by George Spindler, the book traces both traditional and new approaches to the study of schools and their communities. Emphasis on discourse, critical pedagogy, and ethnicity are among the many aspects of methodology and educational change emphasized by the contributors. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Working Feminism Geraldine Pratt, 2004 How feminist theory can be practically used in women's lives |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Europe and the People Without History Eric R. Wolf, 2010-08-22 'The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.' (AMAZON) |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Remaking Women Lila Abu-Lughod, 1998-07-01 Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the woman question in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions, which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Sweetness and Power Sidney W. Mintz, 1986-08-05 A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a slave crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat. -San Francisco Chronicle |
| abu lughod writing against culture: After Writing Culture Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James, 2003-12-16 With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving following the debates of the 1980s. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: The House of Lim Margery Wolf, 1968 An account of the many aspects of village life in China. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Existential Anthropology Michael Jackson, 2005 Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell, 2014-09-11 The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Global Transformations M. Trouillot, 2016-04-30 Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the Twenty-first-century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Entangled Life Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce, 2013-09-05 This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a range of new perspectives, methods, and frameworks for examining and understanding the ways that organisms and environments interact. The volume is organized into three main sections: historical perspectives, contested models, and emerging frameworks. The first section explores the origins of the modern idea of organism-environment interaction in the mid-nineteenth century and its development by later psychologists and anthropologists. In the second section, a variety of controversial models—from mathematical representations of evolution to model organisms in medical research—are discussed and reframed in light of recent questions about the interplay between organisms and environment. The third section investigates several new ideas that have the potential to reshape key aspects of the biological and social sciences. Populations of organisms evolve in response to changing environments; bodies and minds depend on a wide array of circumstances for their development; cultures create complex relationships with the natural world even as they alter it irrevocably. The chapters in this volume share a commitment to unraveling the mysteries of this entangled life. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: How to Think Like an Anthropologist Matthew Engelke, 2019-06-18 What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how humans organize their lives and articulate their values. In the process, anthropology has done more than any other discipline to reveal what culture means--and why it matters. By weaving together examples and theories from around the world, Matthew Engelke provides a lively, accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to anthropology, covering a wide range of classic and contemporary approaches, subjects, and practitioners. Presenting a set of memorable cases, he encourages readers to think deeply about some of the key concepts with which anthropology tries to make sense of the world--from culture and nature to authority and blood. Along the way, he shows why anthropology matters: not only because it helps us understand other cultures and points of view but also because, in the process, it reveals something about ourselves and our own cultures, too. --Cover. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Media Worlds Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin, 2002-10-23 This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Nakba Ahmad H. Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod, 2007-04-10 For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past. By focusing on memories of the Nakba or catastrophe of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were dispossessed to create the state of Israel, the contributors to this volume illuminate the contemporary Palestinian experience and clarify the moral claims they make for justice and redress. The book's essays consider the ways in which Palestinians have remembered and organized themselves around the Nakba, a central trauma that continues to be refracted through Palestinian personal and collective memory. Analyzing oral histories and written narratives, poetry and cinema, personal testimony and courtroom evidence, the authors show how the continuing experience of violence, displacement, and occupation have transformed the pre-Nakba past and the land of Palestine into symbols of what has been and continues to be lost. Nakba brings to light the different ways in which Palestinians experienced and retain in memory the events of 1948. It is the first book to examine in detail how memories of Palestine's cataclysmic past are shaped by differences of class, gender, generation, and geographical location. In exploring the power of the past, the authors show the urgency of the question of memory for understanding the contested history of the present. Contributors: Lila Abu Lughod, Columbia University; Diana Keown Allan, Harvard University; Haim Bresheeth, University of East London; Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University; Samera Esmeir, University of California, Berkeley; Isabelle Humphries, University of Surrey; Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University; Laleh Khalili, SOAS, University of London; Omar Al-Qattan, filmmaker; Ahmad H. Sa'di, Ben-Gurion University; Rosemary Sayigh, Lebanon-based anthropologist; Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles |
| abu lughod writing against culture: The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation Francesca Giardini, Rafael Wittek, 2019-05-22 Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.. Academic studies have found that gossip and reputation have the power to enforce social norms, facilitate cooperation, and act as a means of social control. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip - evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, but up until now have been mostly studied in isolation. The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation fills this intellectual gap, providing an integrated understanding of the foundations of gossip and reputation, as well as outlining a potential framework for future research. Volume editors Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek bring together a diverse group of researchers to analyze gossip and reputation from different disciplines, social domains, and levels of analysis. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, organizations, social networks, or schools. International in scope, the volume is organized into seven sections devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Contributions from eminent experts on gossip and reputation not only help us better understand the complex interplay between two delicate social mechanisms, but also sketch the contours of a long term research agenda by pointing to new problems and newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke (III), David Yaghoubian, 2006 Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian -- Precolonial lives -- Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater -- Shemsigul: a circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano -- Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective / Sherry Vatter -- Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson -- Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke III -- Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler -- Colonial lives -- The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer -- Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury -- M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar -- Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian -- Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida -- Post-Colonial lives -- Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck -- An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. [ths] J. Fischer -- Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani -- Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann -- Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray -- Contemporary lives -- Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture -- Fanny colonna -- Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg -- Khanom gohary: Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar -- Nadia: mother of the believers / Baya Gacemi -- June leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara neuman -- Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Second-Hand Cultures Nicky Gregson, Louise Crewe, 2003-03 Drawing on six years of original research, this book explores what happens when the often contradictory motivations behind style and survival strategies are brought together in the second hand trade. What does second hand buying and selling tell us about the state of contemporary consumption? |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Taking Sides Robert Louis Welsch, Kirk M. Endicott, 2006 This [text] is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in cultural anthropology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading anthropologists and educators, reflect a variety of viewpoints, and have been selected for their liveliness and substance, their relevance to the topics included in college-level study of cultural anthropology, and because of their value in a debate framework.--Back cover. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Questioning the Veil Marnia Lazreg, 2009 Marnia Lazreg examines four arguments given by women who take up veiling, exposes their assumptions, & describes the implications for the future. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Freedom in Fulani Social Life Paul Riesman, 1998-08-15 Paul Riesman's Freedom in Fulani Social Life is based upon his two years of residence among the Jelgobe, a group of semi-nomadic Fulani of the Sahel in Upper Volta, western Africa. Since its original publication, this classic study has profoundly influenced the field of anthropology through its re-examination of the enthnographer's personal input on his research. Freedom in Fulani Social Life richly documents how the ethnographer's own personal and cultural background is implicated in the research process. . . . For this reason, [Riesman's] book will be of paramount interest to all ethnographers.—Philip L. Kilbride, Reviews in Anthropology A remarkably well-written and insightful account of Fulani life. . . . In addition to using the conventional approaches of participating in and observing the daily activities of the Jelgobe . . . Riesman enriches his account by examining his personal feelings about particular incidents.—Library Journal An interesting and provocative study.—Choice At the time of his death in 1988, Paul Riesman was an anthropologist who taught at Carleton College. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Translated Woman Ruth Behar, 2014-10-28 Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their subjects. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Selected Writings on Race and Difference Stuart Hall, 2021-04-02 In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes” (1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Writing Culture James Clifford, George E. Marcus, 1986 Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book.--Hayden White, author of Metahistory |
| abu lughod writing against culture: The City of Women Ruth Landes, 1994 This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Language, Counter-memory, Practice Michel Foucault, 1980 Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France; the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze; and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel. Professor Bouchard has divided the book into three closely related sections. The four essays in Part One examine language as a perilous limit of what we know and what we are. The essays in the second part suggest the methodological guidelines to which Foucault subscribes, and they record, in the editor's words, the penetration of the language of literature into the domain of discursive thought. The material in the last section is more obviously political than the essays. It treats language in use, language attempting to impart knowledge and power. Translated by the editor and Sherry Simon into fluent and lucid English, these essays will appeal primarily to students of literature, especially those interested in contemporary continental structuralist criticism. But because of the breadth of Foucault's interests, they should also prove valuable to anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and psychologists. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Cultural Processes Angela K.-y. Leung, Chi-yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong, 2010-12-06 With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. The goal of this book is to lay the theoretical foundation for this exciting development by proposing an original process model of culture. This new perspective discusses and extends contemporary social psychological theories of social cognition and social motivation to explain why culture matters in human psychology. We view culture as a loose network of imperfectly shared knowledge representations for coordinating social transactions. As such, culture serves different adaptive functions important for individuals' goal pursuits. Furthermore, with the increasingly globalized and hyper-connected multicultural space, much can be revealed about how different cultural traditions come into contact. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Engaged Anthropology Stuart Kirsch, 2018-03-30 Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Return to Laughter Elenore Smith Bowen, 2020-03-05 This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an anthropologist’s first year in the field with a remote African tribe. Simply as a work of ethnographic interest, Return to Laughter provides deep insights into the culture of West Africa—me subtle web of its tribal life and the power of the institution of witchcraft. However, the author’s fictional approach gives the book its lasting appeal. She focuses on the human dimension of anthropology, recounting her personal triumphs and failures and documenting the profound changes she undergoes. As a result, her story becomes at once highly personal and universally recognizable. She has vividly brought to life the classic narrative of an outsider caught up and deeply involved in an utterly alien culture. “The first introspective account ever published of what it’s like to be a field worker among a primitive people.”—Margaret Mead |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Displaced at Home Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, Isis Nusair, 2010-10-01 Most media coverage and research on the experience of Palestinians focuses on those living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, while the sizable minority of Palestinians living within Israel rarely garners significant academic or media attention. Offering a rich and multidimensional portrait of the lived realities of Palestinians within the state of Israel, Palestinians in Israel Revisited gathers a group of Palestinian women scholars who present unflinching critiques of the complexities and challenges inherent in the lives of this understudied but important minority within Israel. The essays here engage topics ranging from internal refugees and historical memory to women's sexuality and the resistant possibilities of hip hop culture among young Palestinians. Unique in the collection is sustained attention to gender concerns, which have tended to be subordinated to questions of nationalism, statehood, and citizenship. The first collection of its kind in English, Palestinians in Israel Revisited presents on-the-ground examples of the changing political, social and economic conditions of Palestinians in Israel, and examines how global, national, and local concerns intersect and shape their daily lives. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Living Room Wars Ien Ang, 2006-07-13 Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. Ang examines how the makers and marketers of television attempt to mould their audience and looks at the often unexpected ways in which the viewers actively engage with the programmes they watch. Living Room Wars highlights the inherent contradictions of a `politics of pleasure' of television consumption: Ang moves beyond the trditional forcus on textual meanings to explore the structural and historical representations fo television audiences as an integral part of modern culture. Her wide-ranging and illuminating discussion takes in the battle between television and its audiences; the politics of empirical audience research; new technologies and the tactics of television consumption; ethnography and radical contextualism in audience studies; television fiction and women's fantasy; feminist desire and female pleasure in media consumption, and the transnational media system. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: A Thrice-Told Tale Margery Wolf, 1992-04 A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan--a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article--to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different style, and has different outcomes, yet all three involve the same fascinating set of events. A young mother began to behave in a decidedly abherrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization? Or was she being cynically manipulated by her ne'er-do-well husband to elicit sympathy and money from her neighbors? In the end, the woman was taken away from the area to her mother's house. For some villagers, this settled the matter; for others the debate over her behavior was probably never truly resolved. The first text is a short story written shortly after the incident, which occurred almost thrity years ago; the second text is a copy of the fieldnotes collected about the events covered in the short story; the third text is an article published in 1990 in American Ethnologist that analyzes the incident from the author's current perspective. Following each text is a Commentary in which the author discusses such topics as experimental ethnography, polyvocality, authorial presence and control, reflexivity, and some of the differences between fiction and ethnography. The three texts are framed by two chapters in which the author discusses the genereal problems posed by feminist and postmodernist critics of ethnography and presents her personal exploration of these issues in an argument that is strongly self-reflexive and theoretically rigorous. She considers some feminist concerns over colonial research methods and takes issues with the insistence of some feminists tha the topics of ethnographic research be set by those who are studied. The book concludes with a plea for ethnographic responsibility based on a less academic and more practical perspective. |
| abu lughod writing against culture: Postmodern Culture Hal Foster, 1985 In all the arts a war is being waged between modernists and postmodernists. Radicals have tended to side with the modernists against the forces of conservatism. Postmodern Culture is a break with this tendency. Its contributors propose a postmodernism of resistance - an aesthetic that rejects hierarchy and celebrates diversity. Ranging from architecture, sculpture and painting to music, photography and film, this collection is now recognised as a seminal text on the postmodernism debate.The essays are by Hal Foster, Jürgen Habermas, Kenneth Frampton, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Craig Owens, Gregory L. Ulmer, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Edward W. Said. |
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WRITING AGAINST CULTURE 467 West, at least since the birth of anthropology, has been constituted by Western domination. This suggests that the awkwardness Strathern senses in …
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In it, Abu-Lughod discusses the way “experts” on the “culture” of “Muslim women” were sought out in the wake of the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan in ways that fed into, rather than …
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Abu-Lughod's critique of essentialist notions of "culture" provides a vital framework for fostering a more ethical and nuanced approach to cultural understanding. By recognizing the constructed …
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Her contributions to anthropological theorizing are crystallized in articles such as “The Romance of Resistance” (1990); “Writing Against Culture” (1991); “The Interpretation of Culture(s) After …
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26 Jun 1993 · Many of the studies of popular culture, and especially television, that I have come across are disappointing. They do not seem to be trying to offer profound insights into the …
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Writing against culture. In Recapturing anthropology: working in the present. ed. R.G. Fox, New Mexico: School of American Research, Santa Fe. Agger, B. 1992. Cultural studies as critical …
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Abu-Lughod self-identifies her writing as being “against culture.” While the concept of culture arose as a replacement for the concept of race, its effects are just as sinister.
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Lila Abu-Lughod American Anthropologist; Sep 2002; 104, 3; Research Library Core pg. 783. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without …
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Abu-Lughod deconstructs culturalist interpreta-tions of difference, arguing that liberal feminists who accept these interpretations cannot tolerate the needs and sensibilities of Muslim women, …
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LILA ABU-LUGHOD The events marking the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Edward Said's 1978 Orientalism provide an excellent occasion to reflect on the book's impact on …
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In her penultimate chapter writing as “an anthropologist in the territory of rights” Abu Lughod discusses activist Ongs such as Musawah/Sisters in Islam (Malaysia) and Wise (Women’s …
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WRITING AGAINST CULTURE 467 West, at least since the birth of anthropology, has been constituted by Western domination. This suggests that the awkwardness Strathern senses in the relationship between feminism and anthropol-ogy might better be understood as the result of diametrically opposed processes of self-construction
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Lila Abu-Lughod begins her essay with the claim that the arguments made in Writing Culture need to be extended to a more radical conclusion. Rather than settle for new textual strategies in ethnography that acknow-ledge the “partial” and “situated” qualities of ethnographic texts, Abu-Lughod argues for strategies of writing
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Abu-Lughod contributed by showing the awkward relationship between anthropology and feminism. “Writing Against Culture” and Veiled sentiments, illustrated a new way of writing feminist anthropology.
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In 1991, Lila Abu-Lughod wrote a seminal piece titled Writing Against Culture to critique contemporary no-tions of cultures as bound, identifiable, generalizable, and homogenous. She suggested that, instead of emphasizing differences, we should focus on simi-larities, highlight connections, and carry out “ethnographies of the particular ...
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring ...
In it, Abu-Lughod discusses the way “experts” on the “culture” of “Muslim women” were sought out in the wake of the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan in ways that fed into, rather than challenging, the dominant media
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Abu-Lughod's critique of essentialist notions of "culture" provides a vital framework for fostering a more ethical and nuanced approach to cultural understanding. By recognizing the constructed and dynamic nature of culture, we can avoid the pitfalls of harmful stereotypes and appreciate the diversity of human experience.
SPEAKING ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY Lila Abu-Lughod
Her contributions to anthropological theorizing are crystallized in articles such as “The Romance of Resistance” (1990); “Writing Against Culture” (1991); “The Interpretation of Culture(s) After Television” (1997); and “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Refl ections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others” (2002).
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"Abu-lughod writing against culture" emphasizes the importance of considering historical and political contexts when analyzing cultural practices. Furthermore, "abu-lughod writing against culture" actively challenges the very act of defining and categorizing cultures.
Book Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
As a result, Abu-Lughod aims to deconstruct popular characterisations of Muslim women through a process of ‘writing against culture’, by which she endeavours to bring forces and influences other than culture to the fore.
The Interpretation of Culture(s) after Television - JSTOR
26 Jun 1993 · Many of the studies of popular culture, and especially television, that I have come across are disappointing. They do not seem to be trying to offer profound insights into the human condition, or even into the social, cultural, and political dynamics of particular communities-goals anthropology has always, perhaps with hubris, set for itself.
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1. What is feminism for Abu-Lughod? 2. What is culture for Abu-Lughod? 3. How does she intend to ‘write against culture’? 4. What are the problems with ethnography in anthropology, according to Abu-Lughod? 5. What stylistic choices does Abu-Lughod make? (ie what conventions does she use to put the book together? 6. Who is Abu-Lughod writing ...
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Writing against culture. In Recapturing anthropology: working in the present. ed. R.G. Fox, New Mexico: School of American Research, Santa Fe. Agger, B. 1992. Cultural studies as critical theory. London: Falmer Press. Althusser, L. 1972. Marx’s relation to Hegel. In Politics and history: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx.
Re-Writing (against) Culture - sgsa-ssts.ch
In her text “Writing against culture” (1991), Abu-Lughod addressed the pitfalls of ethnographic research and analysis methods that all too often constructed generalizing assumptions based on cultural differences.
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Abu-Lughod self-identifies her writing as being “against culture.” While the concept of culture arose as a replacement for the concept of race, its effects are just as sinister.
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving - JSTOR
Abu-Lughod * Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? 785 generals had a few thousand native men bused in from nearby villages, along with a few women who were sol-emnly unveiled by French women. ... Rounding up Alge-rians and bringing them to demonstrations of loyalty to France was not in itself an unusual act during the colonial era.
Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropoligical reflections …
Lila Abu-Lughod American Anthropologist; Sep 2002; 104, 3; Research Library Core pg. 783. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Abu-lughod, lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - JSTOR
Abu-Lughod deconstructs culturalist interpreta-tions of difference, arguing that liberal feminists who accept these interpretations cannot tolerate the needs and sensibilities of Muslim women, which are deemed “different” from theirs.
'Orientalism' and Middle East Feminist Studies - JSTOR
LILA ABU-LUGHOD The events marking the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Edward Said's 1978 Orientalism provide an excellent occasion to reflect on the book's impact on Middle East gender and wom-en's studies. In some ways Orientalism and feminist studies have, in Marilyn Strathem's memorable phrase, an awkward relation-ship.'
Lila Abu Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - JSTOR
In her penultimate chapter writing as “an anthropologist in the territory of rights” Abu Lughod discusses activist Ongs such as Musawah/Sisters in Islam (Malaysia) and Wise (Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality) led by Daisy Khan
