Ashwak Sam Hauter
Biographic Data
| ID | 105086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashwak Sam Hauter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashwak Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Hauter |
| SIGNATURE | HAUTER A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1605-659X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Habitus: Both Malaka and Fitra
POLITICS OF PIETY: THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL AND THE FEMINIST SUBJECT. By Saba Mahmood. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Chapter 4 of Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (2011), “Positive Ethics and Ritual Convention,” tackles several assumptions within moral philosophy, anthropology, and feminist theory regarding (1) the elaboration of ethics as an abstract system of regulatory norms, values, and principles; (2) the role of ritual in conformi…
Yemen and 'Afiya in the Face of the Umma
This paper explores the psychic implications of nation-state politics on Yemenis and the necessity of repair and restorative justice. It examines some burgeoning work by artists and filmmakers that work on the image of the Yemeni as a reaction to the mental health crisis, ongoing war, and dispossession. For many of my interlocutors, the exploration and reimagining of Yemeni history, identity, and their place within a larger umma beyond nation-sta…
Ethics in Ethnography: Lessons of Amana and Ghayb in the Middle East for Medical Anthropology
Much has been written about the ethics of doing and writing ethnography, the imbalance of power between anthropologists and the communities they study, the extraction of information from interlocut
Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
This article addresses the psycho-spiritual intersection of geopolitics and medicine in the borderlands between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, at the margins of war. Set in a Saudi Arabian Hospital in Jeddah, it examines patients' demand for and physicians' attempt to secure 'afiya (psychic, physical, and spiritual well-being) amid regional upheaval and the limits of Islamicized biomedical care. I reflect on the case of a Yemeni migrant/refugee hospital…
Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology
This paper brings both textual and ethnographic considerations to bear on Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s (d. 1068/470H) medico-philosophical commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. He considers cases of madness and absence of pain in order to discuss the problem of ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql (mental derangement) and its relation to the body, soul, and spirit. Focusing on ikhtilāṭ offers a space to examine an important configuration at the limit of the physical, the met…
Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
This article addresses the psycho-spiritual intersection of geopolitics and medicine in the borderlands between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, at the margins of war. Set in a Saudi Arabian Hospital in Jeddah, it examines patients' demand for and physicians' attempt to secure 'afiya (psychic, physical, and spiritual well-being) amid regional upheaval and the limits of Islamicized biomedical care. I reflect on the case of a Yemeni migrant/refugee hospital…
Ethics in Ethnography: Lessons of Amana and Ghayb in the Middle East for Medical Anthropology
Much has been written about the ethics of doing and writing ethnography, the imbalance of power between anthropologists and the communities they study, the extraction of information from interlocut
Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology
This paper brings both textual and ethnographic considerations to bear on Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s (d. 1068/470H) medico-philosophical commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. He considers cases of madness and absence of pain in order to discuss the problem of ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql (mental derangement) and its relation to the body, soul, and spirit. Focusing on ikhtilāṭ offers a space to examine an important configuration at the limit of the physical, the met…
Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology
This paper brings both textual and ethnographic considerations to bear on Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s (d. 1068/470H) medico-philosophical commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. He considers cases of madness and absence of pain in order to discuss the problem of ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql (mental derangement) and its relation to the body, soul, and spirit. Focusing on ikhtilāṭ offers a space to examine an important configuration at the limit of the physical, the met…
Ethics in Ethnography: Lessons of Amana and Ghayb in the Middle East for Medical Anthropology
Much has been written about the ethics of doing and writing ethnography, the imbalance of power between anthropologists and the communities they study, the extraction of information from interlocut
Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
This article addresses the psycho-spiritual intersection of geopolitics and medicine in the borderlands between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, at the margins of war. Set in a Saudi Arabian Hospital in Jeddah, it examines patients' demand for and physicians' attempt to secure 'afiya (psychic, physical, and spiritual well-being) amid regional upheaval and the limits of Islamicized biomedical care. I reflect on the case of a Yemeni migrant/refugee hospital…
Yemen and 'Afiya in the Face of the Umma
This paper explores the psychic implications of nation-state politics on Yemenis and the necessity of repair and restorative justice. It examines some burgeoning work by artists and filmmakers that work on the image of the Yemeni as a reaction to the mental health crisis, ongoing war, and dispossession. For many of my interlocutors, the exploration and reimagining of Yemeni history, identity, and their place within a larger umma beyond nation-sta…
Habitus: Both Malaka and Fitra
POLITICS OF PIETY: THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL AND THE FEMINIST SUBJECT. By Saba Mahmood. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Chapter 4 of Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (2011), “Positive Ethics and Ritual Convention,” tackles several assumptions within moral philosophy, anthropology, and feminist theory regarding (1) the elaboration of ethics as an abstract system of regulatory norms, values, and principles; (2) the role of ritual in conformi…
Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)