Carla Bellamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 106664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Bellamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellamy |
| SIGNATURE | BELLAMY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3830-0995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Being Muslim the Chhipa way
This article adds to the emergent picture of caste practices among Indian Muslim communities through a focus on caste-based discourses and practices in the contemporary OBC Muslim Chhipa community (OBC, short for 'Other Backward Class', is an Indian-government designation). The article examines Muslim Chhipa origin stories, marriage practices and language strategies and shows the ways in which these phenomena-and attitudes about them-allow Muslim…
Alternative Kingdoms
Now a town in contemporary Madhya Pradesh, the former princely state of Jaora is home to a collection of shrines known as Husain Tekri. Unlike most subcontinental Muslim memorial structures, the shrines are unaffiliated with Sufi lineages and sponsored by both Sunni and Shia communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the…
An analytical framework for spatially targeted management of natural capital
Response to Vernon Schubel’s review of The Powerful Ephemeral
The Powerful EphemeralEveryday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. This ethnography traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern …
Person in Place
Person in Place: Possession and Power at an Indian Islamic Saint Shrine Carla Bellamy (bio) Since the popularization of Michel Foucault in the Western academy and, for those who study so-called non-Western cultures, the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars have become increasingly aware of the culturally and historically particular nature of their categories and the inherently political nature of knowledge production.1 While early f…
Smoking is Good for You
The Powerful EphemeralEveryday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. This ethnography traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern …
Person in Place
Person in Place: Possession and Power at an Indian Islamic Saint Shrine Carla Bellamy (bio) Since the popularization of Michel Foucault in the Western academy and, for those who study so-called non-Western cultures, the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars have become increasingly aware of the culturally and historically particular nature of their categories and the inherently political nature of knowledge production.1 While early f…
Being Muslim the Chhipa way
This article adds to the emergent picture of caste practices among Indian Muslim communities through a focus on caste-based discourses and practices in the contemporary OBC Muslim Chhipa community (OBC, short for 'Other Backward Class', is an Indian-government designation). The article examines Muslim Chhipa origin stories, marriage practices and language strategies and shows the ways in which these phenomena-and attitudes about them-allow Muslim…
Alternative Kingdoms
Now a town in contemporary Madhya Pradesh, the former princely state of Jaora is home to a collection of shrines known as Husain Tekri. Unlike most subcontinental Muslim memorial structures, the shrines are unaffiliated with Sufi lineages and sponsored by both Sunni and Shia communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the…
An analytical framework for spatially targeted management of natural capital
Smoking is Good for You
Smoking is Good for You
Person in Place
Person in Place: Possession and Power at an Indian Islamic Saint Shrine Carla Bellamy (bio) Since the popularization of Michel Foucault in the Western academy and, for those who study so-called non-Western cultures, the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars have become increasingly aware of the culturally and historically particular nature of their categories and the inherently political nature of knowledge production.1 While early f…
The Powerful EphemeralEveryday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. This ethnography traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern …
Response to Vernon Schubel’s review of The Powerful Ephemeral
An analytical framework for spatially targeted management of natural capital
Alternative Kingdoms
Now a town in contemporary Madhya Pradesh, the former princely state of Jaora is home to a collection of shrines known as Husain Tekri. Unlike most subcontinental Muslim memorial structures, the shrines are unaffiliated with Sufi lineages and sponsored by both Sunni and Shia communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the…
Being Muslim the Chhipa way
This article adds to the emergent picture of caste practices among Indian Muslim communities through a focus on caste-based discourses and practices in the contemporary OBC Muslim Chhipa community (OBC, short for 'Other Backward Class', is an Indian-government designation). The article examines Muslim Chhipa origin stories, marriage practices and language strategies and shows the ways in which these phenomena-and attitudes about them-allow Muslim…
Islam (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)