Beyond cultural intimacy

The tensions that make truth for India's Ahmadi Muslims

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2260985
AutoresNicholas H A Evans (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas490-502
Fecha de publicación2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/amet.12524
OpenAlexW2617268372
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas24

How should anthropologists write about the public self-presentation of minority groups? In the Indian town of Qadian, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-a marginal group with a long history of persecution in South Asia-uses visual media to counter hostility and produce images of its members as exemplary Muslims. That such images are artificially produced is an intimate secret shared by the town's residents. Understanding this secret without undermining the political struggle that Ahmadi Muslims are engaged in means moving beyond the idea that truth must be located in either the everyday or the public. For Ahmadis in Qadian, the disjuncture between these realms is a space of possibility that reveals truth. [cultural intimacy, visual media, exemplarity, self-representation, Ahmadiyya, Islam, India

Hinduism · Hostility · Islam · Media studies · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Public space · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies