Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
Biographic Data
| ID | 100544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Keppley Mahmood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia Keppley |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahmood |
| SIGNATURE | MAHMOOD C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Economics, Police Corruption, and Sikh Resistance in Punjab
Race and America’s Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh: Oakland: University of California Press, 2017
Independence for Scotland
New directions in feminist politics: A review of the following: International Security and Gender; Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (3rd rev. ed.); and Global Border Crossing…
Sikh Traditions and Violence
This chapter, which deals with the Sikh tradition within the context of the shifting sands of India's religious history, also discusses the reverence for certain Sikh gurus as being linked with martyrdom and violence, and relates this history of religious violence to the militant drive for a Sikh homeland—Khalistan—in recent decades. Sikhism is among the youngest of the global religions. The struggle for Khalistan was a resistance movement agains…
Helium
How Jesse Became a Revolutionary
Gun Cultures, Majority Nationalism, and the Prominence of Fear: Reflections on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes
I write in the shadow of the shootings at the Wisconsin gurudwara at Oak Creek, having just learned that yet another Wisconsin Sikh has been targeted because of his appearance. It appears as if the
A hobby no more: Anxieties of engaged anthropology: at the heart of empire (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Previous calls for an engaged anthropology were met by scholars who rose to the challenge successfully. But the current conservative political climate witnesses a regression of ‘academic standards’ to the traditional publish‐or‐perish model in many institutions, which themselves claim as mission not ivory‐tower academics but contribution to world affairs. Anthropologists may have to place themselves at the forefront of institutional reform if the…
Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment
In this deeply personal account, I describe for the first time how I was assaulted, beaten, and raped by a gang of hired thugs or rogue police in a north central Indian state during fieldwork in 1992. A graphic narrative of this event leads into a brief meditation on the sorts of things readers would typically prefer not to know, and on our compulsion as engaged anthropologists to bring them into the conversation anyway. I conclude with the persi…
The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. Susan Slyomovics
Agenda for an Anthropology of Peace
Anthropological compulsions in a world in crisis
Terrorism, Myth, and the Power of Ethnographic Praxis
Terrorism," like "witchcraft," is a concept that anthropology can aid in deconstructing. The mythos of "the terrorist" has become part of the political drama of our time despite a lack of concreteness in its definition. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research with Sikh separatist militants, this article focuses on how the imagining of terror has replaced the reality of armed conflict among the Sikhs in Western legal and policy settings. Spec…
Writing the bones
The Tile Maker
Georg Simmel was fascinated by the notion of "the stranger " and the role such outsiders play in the social order. Camus used "the stranger" as a metaphor for the human condition. Anthropologists are in a sense professional strangers, always half in and half out of the communities they study. This is the story, or rather nonstory, of a stranger in Friesland. Nobody knew him, but the villagers talked to me, their ethnographer, about and around him…
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of the personal and professional problems that arise as…
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Face of Terrorism
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Face of Terrorism. JOSEBA ZULAIKA and WILLIAM A. DOUGLASS. London and New York: Routledge, 1996 xii + 292 pp., notes, bibliography, Index
The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity
The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xvi. 184 pp., plates, notes, references, index
Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants
"A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world—and the world view—of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."—Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. eds. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 45. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. 263 pp
Asylum, Violence, and the Limits of Advocacy
The topic of human rights has been likened to a moral and political mine field (Downing and Kushner 1988:l). The growing literature on anthropology and human rights focuses on the key issue of universalism versus relativism, with proposals for the resolution of this antinomy ranging from leastcommon denominator approaches (Renteln 1990) to suggestions for frameworks for cross-cultural dialogue on rights (An-Na'im 1992; Falk 1992). The tension in …
Ayodhya and the Hindu resurgence
Violence and the Culture of Sikh Separatism
Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture
Research Article| July 01 1993 Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (7): 722–737. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645359 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Do Ethnic Groups Exist: A Cognitive Perspective on the Concept of Cultures
Two years after the publication of an ethnographic case study of a village in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands (Mahmood 1989), a team of investigators returned to the site to explore reactions to the study. While the local population and the Netherlands academic establishment expressed a variety of opinions with regard to the book itself, the more interesting question quickly became the issue of whether there is such a thing as Frisian …
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. eds. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 45. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. 263 pp
Terrorism, Myth, and the Power of Ethnographic Praxis
Terrorism," like "witchcraft," is a concept that anthropology can aid in deconstructing. The mythos of "the terrorist" has become part of the political drama of our time despite a lack of concreteness in its definition. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research with Sikh separatist militants, this article focuses on how the imagining of terror has replaced the reality of armed conflict among the Sikhs in Western legal and policy settings. Spec…
Asylum, Violence, and the Limits of Advocacy
The topic of human rights has been likened to a moral and political mine field (Downing and Kushner 1988:l). The growing literature on anthropology and human rights focuses on the key issue of universalism versus relativism, with proposals for the resolution of this antinomy ranging from leastcommon denominator approaches (Renteln 1990) to suggestions for frameworks for cross-cultural dialogue on rights (An-Na'im 1992; Falk 1992). The tension in …
Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture
Research Article| July 01 1993 Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (7): 722–737. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645359 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Anthropological compulsions in a world in crisis
Gun Cultures, Majority Nationalism, and the Prominence of Fear: Reflections on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes
I write in the shadow of the shootings at the Wisconsin gurudwara at Oak Creek, having just learned that yet another Wisconsin Sikh has been targeted because of his appearance. It appears as if the
Agenda for an Anthropology of Peace
Writing the bones
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of the personal and professional problems that arise as…
Violence and the Culture of Sikh Separatism
The Cultural Ecology of “Neighbor's Duty” in Friesland
Sikh Rebellion and the Hindu Concept of Order
Research Article| March 01 1989 Sikh Rebellion and the Hindu Concept of Order Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (3): 326–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644668 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Do Ethnic Groups Exist: A Cognitive Perspective on the Concept of Cultures
Two years after the publication of an ethnographic case study of a village in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands (Mahmood 1989), a team of investigators returned to the site to explore reactions to the study. While the local population and the Netherlands academic establishment expressed a variety of opinions with regard to the book itself, the more interesting question quickly became the issue of whether there is such a thing as Frisian …
Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture
Research Article| July 01 1993 Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (7): 722–737. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645359 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Ethics in Arenas of Violence
Ayodhya and the Hindu resurgence
Violence and the Culture of Sikh Separatism
Asylum, Violence, and the Limits of Advocacy
The topic of human rights has been likened to a moral and political mine field (Downing and Kushner 1988:l). The growing literature on anthropology and human rights focuses on the key issue of universalism versus relativism, with proposals for the resolution of this antinomy ranging from leastcommon denominator approaches (Renteln 1990) to suggestions for frameworks for cross-cultural dialogue on rights (An-Na'im 1992; Falk 1992). The tension in …
Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants
"A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world—and the world view—of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."—Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. eds. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 45. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. 263 pp
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of the personal and professional problems that arise as…
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Face of Terrorism
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Face of Terrorism. JOSEBA ZULAIKA and WILLIAM A. DOUGLASS. London and New York: Routledge, 1996 xii + 292 pp., notes, bibliography, Index
The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity
The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xvi. 184 pp., plates, notes, references, index
Writing the bones
The Tile Maker
Georg Simmel was fascinated by the notion of "the stranger " and the role such outsiders play in the social order. Camus used "the stranger" as a metaphor for the human condition. Anthropologists are in a sense professional strangers, always half in and half out of the communities they study. This is the story, or rather nonstory, of a stranger in Friesland. Nobody knew him, but the villagers talked to me, their ethnographer, about and around him…
Terrorism, Myth, and the Power of Ethnographic Praxis
Terrorism," like "witchcraft," is a concept that anthropology can aid in deconstructing. The mythos of "the terrorist" has become part of the political drama of our time despite a lack of concreteness in its definition. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research with Sikh separatist militants, this article focuses on how the imagining of terror has replaced the reality of armed conflict among the Sikhs in Western legal and policy settings. Spec…
Anthropological compulsions in a world in crisis
Agenda for an Anthropology of Peace
The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. Susan Slyomovics
Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment
In this deeply personal account, I describe for the first time how I was assaulted, beaten, and raped by a gang of hired thugs or rogue police in a north central Indian state during fieldwork in 1992. A graphic narrative of this event leads into a brief meditation on the sorts of things readers would typically prefer not to know, and on our compulsion as engaged anthropologists to bring them into the conversation anyway. I conclude with the persi…
Gun Cultures, Majority Nationalism, and the Prominence of Fear: Reflections on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes
I write in the shadow of the shootings at the Wisconsin gurudwara at Oak Creek, having just learned that yet another Wisconsin Sikh has been targeted because of his appearance. It appears as if the
A hobby no more: Anxieties of engaged anthropology: at the heart of empire (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Previous calls for an engaged anthropology were met by scholars who rose to the challenge successfully. But the current conservative political climate witnesses a regression of ‘academic standards’ to the traditional publish‐or‐perish model in many institutions, which themselves claim as mission not ivory‐tower academics but contribution to world affairs. Anthropologists may have to place themselves at the forefront of institutional reform if the…
Sikh Traditions and Violence
This chapter, which deals with the Sikh tradition within the context of the shifting sands of India's religious history, also discusses the reverence for certain Sikh gurus as being linked with martyrdom and violence, and relates this history of religious violence to the militant drive for a Sikh homeland—Khalistan—in recent decades. Sikhism is among the youngest of the global religions. The struggle for Khalistan was a resistance movement agains…
Helium
How Jesse Became a Revolutionary
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · History (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Citation (9 works) · History (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (8 works)