P C Saidalavi
Biographic Data
| ID | 140101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P C Saidalavi |
| GIVEN NAMES | P C |
| FAMILY NAME | Saidalavi |
| SIGNATURE | SAIDALAVI P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shiv Nadar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9692-638X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethical listening within a culture of difference
Ideas like insider/outsider relationships, accessibility, and positionality have been much discussed in anthropology. These become even more complicated in situations where social relationships are always already conceived through inequality and social difference. This paper reflects on my own fieldwork among Muslims fishers on the south-west coast of India, where my belonging to a dominant, inland community elicited a range of responses from my …
Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India
Defined as work undertaken by the body on oneself or others, bodywork has been understood as a key aspect of the service economy today. Since it involves encountering strange bodies, dealing with intimate parts and their waste products, such workers are looked down upon. Global inequality in terms of race, caste, and class structures the relationships between bodyworkers and their clients. Despite such iniquitous social relations, I suggest, body…
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi
The overemphasis in recent anthropological scholarship on self-cultivation through normative discourses has resulted in largely neglecting explorative discourses that have also been key to the formation of religious subjectivities. The relationship between these discourses has tended to be that of ambiguity, given that various groups have sought to establish clear boundaries regarding what is morally acceptable. In this article, I look at how amb…
Muslim Social Organisation and Cultural Islamisation in Malabar
This article calls for a re-evaluation of basic concepts such as caste and status groups for making sense of the social organisation of Muslims in Malabar. Muslim social groups, while disseminating notions of egalitarian claims of Islam, rationalise social divisions and discriminatory practices among themselves largely in terms of Islamic juristic concepts of purity, knowledge, piety and morality. Due to increasing Islamisation, these notions hav…
Muslim Social Organisation and Cultural Islamisation in Malabar
This article calls for a re-evaluation of basic concepts such as caste and status groups for making sense of the social organisation of Muslims in Malabar. Muslim social groups, while disseminating notions of egalitarian claims of Islam, rationalise social divisions and discriminatory practices among themselves largely in terms of Islamic juristic concepts of purity, knowledge, piety and morality. Due to increasing Islamisation, these notions hav…
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi
The overemphasis in recent anthropological scholarship on self-cultivation through normative discourses has resulted in largely neglecting explorative discourses that have also been key to the formation of religious subjectivities. The relationship between these discourses has tended to be that of ambiguity, given that various groups have sought to establish clear boundaries regarding what is morally acceptable. In this article, I look at how amb…
Ethical listening within a culture of difference
Ideas like insider/outsider relationships, accessibility, and positionality have been much discussed in anthropology. These become even more complicated in situations where social relationships are always already conceived through inequality and social difference. This paper reflects on my own fieldwork among Muslims fishers on the south-west coast of India, where my belonging to a dominant, inland community elicited a range of responses from my …
Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India
Defined as work undertaken by the body on oneself or others, bodywork has been understood as a key aspect of the service economy today. Since it involves encountering strange bodies, dealing with intimate parts and their waste products, such workers are looked down upon. Global inequality in terms of race, caste, and class structures the relationships between bodyworkers and their clients. Despite such iniquitous social relations, I suggest, body…
Muslim Social Organisation and Cultural Islamisation in Malabar
This article calls for a re-evaluation of basic concepts such as caste and status groups for making sense of the social organisation of Muslims in Malabar. Muslim social groups, while disseminating notions of egalitarian claims of Islam, rationalise social divisions and discriminatory practices among themselves largely in terms of Islamic juristic concepts of purity, knowledge, piety and morality. Due to increasing Islamisation, these notions hav…
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi
The overemphasis in recent anthropological scholarship on self-cultivation through normative discourses has resulted in largely neglecting explorative discourses that have also been key to the formation of religious subjectivities. The relationship between these discourses has tended to be that of ambiguity, given that various groups have sought to establish clear boundaries regarding what is morally acceptable. In this article, I look at how amb…
Ethical listening within a culture of difference
Ideas like insider/outsider relationships, accessibility, and positionality have been much discussed in anthropology. These become even more complicated in situations where social relationships are always already conceived through inequality and social difference. This paper reflects on my own fieldwork among Muslims fishers on the south-west coast of India, where my belonging to a dominant, inland community elicited a range of responses from my …
Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India
Defined as work undertaken by the body on oneself or others, bodywork has been understood as a key aspect of the service economy today. Since it involves encountering strange bodies, dealing with intimate parts and their waste products, such workers are looked down upon. Global inequality in terms of race, caste, and class structures the relationships between bodyworkers and their clients. Despite such iniquitous social relations, I suggest, body…
Sociology (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)