Resting at creation and afterlife

Distant times in the ordinary strategies of Muslim women in the rural Fouta Djallon, Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2279006
AutoresKaren Smid (University of South Florida, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen37
Número1
Páginas36-52
Fecha de publicación2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01240.x
OpenAlexW2138213337
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas67

Although anthropologists have discredited use of the liberal and secular concept of "agency" for explaining Muslim women's behavior, their evidence comes from women who still appear rather agentive to Western readers, hence, muting the necessity and consequences of discovering and applying the women's own ethical and religious terms in their analysis. In Guinea's rural Fouta Djallon, women are not prone to mobilize and make self-interested decisions with immediately observable outcomes. Therefore, understanding them on their own terms requires greater attention to their religious frameworks, namely, to their use of visions of creation and afterlife to define themselves and strategize for redemption

Afterlife · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethnology · New guinea · Social science · Sociology · Vision · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Philosophy