Gregory M Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 115494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory M Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory M |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, …
Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Conviction without Being Convinced: Maintaining Islamic Certainty in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In Minangkabau society in West Sumatra, Indonesia, Islam provides the solid ground of truth and morality. I examine the role that a notion of conviction plays in allowing Minangkabau people to maintain a sense of commitment to that truth despite practices and experiences that contradict it. Drawing from person-centered research, I argue that individuals can maintain the certainty of Islam and the Islamic nature of their own selves in the subjecti…
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
The soul freed of cares? Islamic prayer, subjectivity, and the contradictions of moral selfhood in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In this article, I explore conceptions and individual experiences of Islamic prayer among Minangkabau people in Indonesia, describing their role in the constitution of selfhood and moral subjectivity. I show how prayer serves as an arena in which the contradictions between conflicting visions of moral selfhood may be engaged, ideally promising reconciliation and transcendence but also inviting experiences of failure. I argue that a rich ethnograp…
Shame, Knowing, and Anthropology: On Robert I. Levy and the Study of Emotion
Robert I. Levy's ethnographic and theoretical work has offered complex ways to consider emotions as neither universal and invariant nor purely constructs of culture. Shame emotions, which seem to fit uncomfortably into our own concepts of personhood, have offered puzzles for ethnographers to which Levy's insights can be fruitfully applied
The soul freed of cares? Islamic prayer, subjectivity, and the contradictions of moral selfhood in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In this article, I explore conceptions and individual experiences of Islamic prayer among Minangkabau people in Indonesia, describing their role in the constitution of selfhood and moral subjectivity. I show how prayer serves as an arena in which the contradictions between conflicting visions of moral selfhood may be engaged, ideally promising reconciliation and transcendence but also inviting experiences of failure. I argue that a rich ethnograp…
Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
Conviction without Being Convinced: Maintaining Islamic Certainty in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In Minangkabau society in West Sumatra, Indonesia, Islam provides the solid ground of truth and morality. I examine the role that a notion of conviction plays in allowing Minangkabau people to maintain a sense of commitment to that truth despite practices and experiences that contradict it. Drawing from person-centered research, I argue that individuals can maintain the certainty of Islam and the Islamic nature of their own selves in the subjecti…
Shame, Knowing, and Anthropology: On Robert I. Levy and the Study of Emotion
Robert I. Levy's ethnographic and theoretical work has offered complex ways to consider emotions as neither universal and invariant nor purely constructs of culture. Shame emotions, which seem to fit uncomfortably into our own concepts of personhood, have offered puzzles for ethnographers to which Levy's insights can be fruitfully applied
Shame, Knowing, and Anthropology: On Robert I. Levy and the Study of Emotion
Robert I. Levy's ethnographic and theoretical work has offered complex ways to consider emotions as neither universal and invariant nor purely constructs of culture. Shame emotions, which seem to fit uncomfortably into our own concepts of personhood, have offered puzzles for ethnographers to which Levy's insights can be fruitfully applied
The soul freed of cares? Islamic prayer, subjectivity, and the contradictions of moral selfhood in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In this article, I explore conceptions and individual experiences of Islamic prayer among Minangkabau people in Indonesia, describing their role in the constitution of selfhood and moral subjectivity. I show how prayer serves as an arena in which the contradictions between conflicting visions of moral selfhood may be engaged, ideally promising reconciliation and transcendence but also inviting experiences of failure. I argue that a rich ethnograp…
Conviction without Being Convinced: Maintaining Islamic Certainty in Minangkabau, Indonesia
In Minangkabau society in West Sumatra, Indonesia, Islam provides the solid ground of truth and morality. I examine the role that a notion of conviction plays in allowing Minangkabau people to maintain a sense of commitment to that truth despite practices and experiences that contradict it. Drawing from person-centered research, I argue that individuals can maintain the certainty of Islam and the Islamic nature of their own selves in the subjecti…
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Subjectivity (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)