Gregory Starrett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92449 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gregory Starrett |
| NOMBRES | Gregory |
| APELLIDO | Starrett |
| FIRMA | STARRETT G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4042-5885 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Everything Possible and Nothing True
On 6 January 2021, an overwhelmingly white, Christian mob stormed the US Capitol building in Washington DC as part of a rally to ‘Save America’. Moving beyond media reports and the analyses of popular pundits, the authors provide an ethnographic outline of some of the complexities and contradictions on display that day. Thinking with Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Ladurie, Ursula LeGuin and others, these notes frame the rally preceding the attack on the…
Time and the spectral other
Recent public protests against right-wing politics in the United States have often demonstrated a sense of surprise at the recurrence of racist, anti-Semitic and fascist ideologies and movements which ought to belong to the past. Using insights from Walter Benjamin, Johannes Fabian and Jacques Derrida, the authors analyze the recent gathering of thousands of counter-demonstrators at the 'Unite the Right 2' rally in Washington, DC and discuss how …
The Varieties of Secular Experience
It has become a nearly universal reflex to think about the contemporary Middle East as a region in which secularism is in decline. This is particularly true in countries like Egypt, where the modernist imagination of independence-era socialism seems to have been eclipsed by a grassroots vision of the future as a thoroughly Islamic place, and where the nature of the government's stance with regard to secularism and religion has long been an import…
Islam and the politics of enchantment
The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counter-claims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programmes for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing them to the Middle East and its dominant religious tradition. Such programmes are often accused by local parents and national intellectuals of pandering to Muslim sensitivities by whitewashing distaste…
Authentication and Affect
Anthropological fashion moves in a rhythm unlike the deliberate seasonal cycle of the couture houses that design the foulards the French find so troubling these days. But if gray or green is the new black this season in Paris and New York, public has been the new structure in anthropology for several long seasons now, and is only just beginning to live up to some of its considerable potential as a design element in cultural analysis, and also to …
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Muslim Youth in New York City Louis Cristillo
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Student Paper Awards: Welfare Reform and the Family in Turkey Berna Yazici
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Fashion and the Meaning of Tehrani Style Pardis Mahdavi
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Teaching Workshop to Continue at 2007 AAA Meeting in DC•Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility After 9/11
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The American Interest in Islamic Schooling
Since 2001, many American intellectuals and policymakers have blamed terrorism and conflict on Middle Eastern educational systems, which they claim do little but indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiment. Pressure has been put on many countries in the region to rewrite their curricula as a cure for violence and xenophobia. This article discusses some historical parallels to current concerns about inadequate schooling, but argues that sol…
Cartoon Violence and a Clash of Civilization
Mutual Life, Limited
Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. Bill Maurer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 217 pp
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Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960–1975
The Political Economy of Religious Commodities in Cairo
Anthropology's rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from prayer beads and bumper stickers to children's board games and jigsaw puzzles-not only construct boundaries between social groups but create alternative ways of understanding and participating in the Islamic …
The Hexis of Interpretation
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 embod…
The Varieties of Secular Experience
It has become a nearly universal reflex to think about the contemporary Middle East as a region in which secularism is in decline. This is particularly true in countries like Egypt, where the modernist imagination of independence-era socialism seems to have been eclipsed by a grassroots vision of the future as a thoroughly Islamic place, and where the nature of the government's stance with regard to secularism and religion has long been an import…
Violence and the Rhetoric of Images
This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized by projecting onto those images fundamental values: purity versus idolatry, heritage versus fanaticism, injustice versus innocence, cynicism versus responsibility. . . . Documentary newspaper photograph…
Everything Possible and Nothing True
On 6 January 2021, an overwhelmingly white, Christian mob stormed the US Capitol building in Washington DC as part of a rally to ‘Save America’. Moving beyond media reports and the analyses of popular pundits, the authors provide an ethnographic outline of some of the complexities and contradictions on display that day. Thinking with Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Ladurie, Ursula LeGuin and others, these notes frame the rally preceding the attack on the…
The Margins of Print
In Egypt, twentieth-century developments in psychology and educational theory have combined with market forces and increasing state interest in religious and political socialization to produce radically new ways of transmitting the Islamic religious tradition to children. In conjunction with 'Western-style' religious textbooks and examinations in schools, both public and private sector publishers now produce instructional material combining conve…
Authentication and Affect
Anthropological fashion moves in a rhythm unlike the deliberate seasonal cycle of the couture houses that design the foulards the French find so troubling these days. But if gray or green is the new black this season in Paris and New York, public has been the new structure in anthropology for several long seasons now, and is only just beginning to live up to some of its considerable potential as a design element in cultural analysis, and also to …
Signposts Along the Road
Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public signs, murals and billboards, on the other. Although ‘scattered’ indeed, the two latter genres of writing are important. They are also quite similar in their social roles, for although commodities circulate…
Time and the spectral other
Recent public protests against right-wing politics in the United States have often demonstrated a sense of surprise at the recurrence of racist, anti-Semitic and fascist ideologies and movements which ought to belong to the past. Using insights from Walter Benjamin, Johannes Fabian and Jacques Derrida, the authors analyze the recent gathering of thousands of counter-demonstrators at the 'Unite the Right 2' rally in Washington, DC and discuss how …
Culture Never Dies
Mass Culture and Modernism In Egypt
Mass Culture and Modernism In Egypt. WALTER ARMBRUST. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1996. xil. 275 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
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Signposts Along the Road
Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public signs, murals and billboards, on the other. Although ‘scattered’ indeed, the two latter genres of writing are important. They are also quite similar in their social roles, for although commodities circulate…
The Hexis of Interpretation
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 embod…
The Political Economy of Religious Commodities in Cairo
Anthropology's rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from prayer beads and bumper stickers to children's board games and jigsaw puzzles-not only construct boundaries between social groups but create alternative ways of understanding and participating in the Islamic …
Avenues of Participation
The Margins of Print
In Egypt, twentieth-century developments in psychology and educational theory have combined with market forces and increasing state interest in religious and political socialization to produce radically new ways of transmitting the Islamic religious tradition to children. In conjunction with 'Western-style' religious textbooks and examinations in schools, both public and private sector publishers now produce instructional material combining conve…
Putting Islam to WorkEducation, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt
The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work, Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and a growing state interest in religious instruction have changed the way the Islamic tradition is reproduced. During the twentieth century new styles of …
Mass Culture and Modernism In Egypt
Mass Culture and Modernism In Egypt. WALTER ARMBRUST. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1996. xil. 275 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
Middle East Section
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Violence and the Rhetoric of Images
This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized by projecting onto those images fundamental values: purity versus idolatry, heritage versus fanaticism, injustice versus innocence, cynicism versus responsibility. . . . Documentary newspaper photograph…
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Culture Never Dies
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