The Hexis of Interpretation
Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Starrett (0000-0002-4042-5885, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 953-969 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00150 |
| OpenAlex | W2152347063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a functionalist discourse that reads bodily postures and movements as natural manifestations of social, ideological, and cosmological structures. Starting from Bourdieu's notion of hexis, the literal embodiment of ideology, the article examines how Egyptians-and anthropologists-extract meaning from ritual behavior
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Epistemology · Ideology · Indigenous · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Sociology · Theology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2022 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |