Lilith Mahmud
Biographic Data
| ID | 101717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lilith Mahmud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lilith |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahmud |
| SIGNATURE | MAHMUD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3898-0637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterword: An illiberal anthropology of difference
Afterword to the “Encounters of Difference” Special Issue, edited by Leslie Fesenmyer, Giulia Liberatore, and Ammara Maqsood
Feminism in the House of Anthropology
Although early feminist insights about reflexivity and fieldwork relations have become core tenets of anthropological theories, feminism itself has been marginalized in anthropology. This review examines feminist contributions to American cultural anthropology since the 1990s across four areas of scholarship: the anthropology of science and medicine, political anthropology, economic anthropology, and ethnography as writing and genre. Treating fem…
In The Name of Transparency: Gender, Terrorism, and Masonic Conspiracies in Italy
In 1993 Italian newspapers published the membership lists of all major Masonic Orders in the country. The lists were part of an ongoing campaign waged in the name of transparency against the secrecy of Freemasons, long suspected of political conspiracies. The lists, however, omitted women's names, thus reifying Freemasonry as a brotherhood of men. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork among Freemason men and women in Italy, I examine historically and…
The world is a forest of symbols: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion
Members of Italian Masonic lodges, esoteric organizations widely perceived as secret societies, prefer to explain their elaborate practices of concealment and disclosure in terms of discretion. Through the aesthetics and epistemology of discretion, Freemasons view the world as a "forest of symbols" hidden in plain sight and awaiting interpretation. Taking "discretion" as both an ethnographic and analytic category, I ask how an anthropological stu…
An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race by Heather Merrill
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong
Inclusionary Rhetoric, Exclusionary Practices: Left-Wing Politics and Migrants in Italy by Davide Però
The world is a forest of symbols: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion
Members of Italian Masonic lodges, esoteric organizations widely perceived as secret societies, prefer to explain their elaborate practices of concealment and disclosure in terms of discretion. Through the aesthetics and epistemology of discretion, Freemasons view the world as a "forest of symbols" hidden in plain sight and awaiting interpretation. Taking "discretion" as both an ethnographic and analytic category, I ask how an anthropological stu…
In The Name of Transparency: Gender, Terrorism, and Masonic Conspiracies in Italy
In 1993 Italian newspapers published the membership lists of all major Masonic Orders in the country. The lists were part of an ongoing campaign waged in the name of transparency against the secrecy of Freemasons, long suspected of political conspiracies. The lists, however, omitted women's names, thus reifying Freemasonry as a brotherhood of men. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork among Freemason men and women in Italy, I examine historically and…
Feminism in the House of Anthropology
Although early feminist insights about reflexivity and fieldwork relations have become core tenets of anthropological theories, feminism itself has been marginalized in anthropology. This review examines feminist contributions to American cultural anthropology since the 1990s across four areas of scholarship: the anthropology of science and medicine, political anthropology, economic anthropology, and ethnography as writing and genre. Treating fem…
Inclusionary Rhetoric, Exclusionary Practices: Left-Wing Politics and Migrants in Italy by Davide Però
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong
An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race by Heather Merrill
In The Name of Transparency: Gender, Terrorism, and Masonic Conspiracies in Italy
In 1993 Italian newspapers published the membership lists of all major Masonic Orders in the country. The lists were part of an ongoing campaign waged in the name of transparency against the secrecy of Freemasons, long suspected of political conspiracies. The lists, however, omitted women's names, thus reifying Freemasonry as a brotherhood of men. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork among Freemason men and women in Italy, I examine historically and…
The world is a forest of symbols: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion
Members of Italian Masonic lodges, esoteric organizations widely perceived as secret societies, prefer to explain their elaborate practices of concealment and disclosure in terms of discretion. Through the aesthetics and epistemology of discretion, Freemasons view the world as a "forest of symbols" hidden in plain sight and awaiting interpretation. Taking "discretion" as both an ethnographic and analytic category, I ask how an anthropological stu…
Feminism in the House of Anthropology
Although early feminist insights about reflexivity and fieldwork relations have become core tenets of anthropological theories, feminism itself has been marginalized in anthropology. This review examines feminist contributions to American cultural anthropology since the 1990s across four areas of scholarship: the anthropology of science and medicine, political anthropology, economic anthropology, and ethnography as writing and genre. Treating fem…
Afterword: An illiberal anthropology of difference
Afterword to the “Encounters of Difference” Special Issue, edited by Leslie Fesenmyer, Giulia Liberatore, and Ammara Maqsood
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