Marzia Balzani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marzia Balzani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marzia |
| FAMILY NAME | Balzani |
| SIGNATURE | BALZANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pre-university anthropology education
This introduction to the special section on pre-university anthropology outlines the current context of anthropology teaching and learning in schools. It briefly locates contemporary pre-university anthropology education in historical context, covering the establishment of the International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology Programme, the short-lived Anthropology A-Level, the recently established qualifications in anthropology in Sco…
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2)
This is the introduction to the second part of a special section that spans two issues of Hau (14 [1] and 14 [2]). The articles in the special section focus on home and home-making and all that this entails for Muslims who have left their homes or cannot be fully at home in their home places. Across countries and continents, across sects and in different local contexts, with diverse histories of migration, the articles explore what home is and wh…
Diaspora as home
The spiritual home of Ahmadiyya Muslims and physical home of their leader has moved from India to Pakistan to London in under a century. These relocations signal the communal dislocation and diasporic spread of Ahmadis. Some collective experiences of migration, encompassing memories and myths of the original homeland, persist; others, including the idea that the ancestral homeland is a place of return, require a more complicated historical explic…
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by other Muslims and one that continues to face persecution in Pakistan, the country the Ahmadis made their home after the partition of India in 1947. Structu…
Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan
This chapter examines the mutual transformations of ritual and landscape in the desert region of Rajasthan in contemporary north-west India. These transformations are understood in relation to the social and religious history of the area; the equally important mythical understandings of the region; recent political transformations which have taken place in India; the violence of communalism serving to divide Hindu from Muslim; environmental conce…
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
Ceremonial occasions
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
The Chief Examiner Role in Pre-University Anthropology
This article draws on the author's experience as both an A level and an IB Chief Examiner to compare these roles within the AQA and the IB and discuss their demands. She reflects on their different institutional cultures, the nature of assessment and curriculum development and the responsibilities placed on examiners
Anthropology and the International Baccalaureate
Dreaming, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK
The Ahmadi Muslim movement, founded in the nineteenth century by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, has been since then one of the most controversial movements within Islam, yet Ahmadis remain the least known of all Muslim communities and in many Islamic countries they have been defined as heretics and subjected to persecution. Despite hostility from other Muslim groups, the Ahmadis have been able to establish resilient communities whose s…
Transnational marriage among Ahmadi Muslims in the UK
Ahmadi Muslims constitute a reformed sect of Islam founded in 1889 by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. In this article I explore the character and processes of transnational marriage arrangements among Ahmadi Muslims over three generations in the UK. I suggest that the process of conversion to Ahmadiyyat and the organizational structure of Ahmadi mosques have combined to produce a flexible pattern of marriage among Ahmadis that is unusua…
Hindu women and marriage law
The Death of a Concubine's Daughter
Dreaming, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK
The Ahmadi Muslim movement, founded in the nineteenth century by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, has been since then one of the most controversial movements within Islam, yet Ahmadis remain the least known of all Muslim communities and in many Islamic countries they have been defined as heretics and subjected to persecution. Despite hostility from other Muslim groups, the Ahmadis have been able to establish resilient communities whose s…
Anthropology and the International Baccalaureate
Transnational marriage among Ahmadi Muslims in the UK
Ahmadi Muslims constitute a reformed sect of Islam founded in 1889 by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. In this article I explore the character and processes of transnational marriage arrangements among Ahmadi Muslims over three generations in the UK. I suggest that the process of conversion to Ahmadiyyat and the organizational structure of Ahmadi mosques have combined to produce a flexible pattern of marriage among Ahmadis that is unusua…
Hindu women and marriage law
The Death of a Concubine's Daughter
Hindu women and marriage law
Transnational marriage among Ahmadi Muslims in the UK
Ahmadi Muslims constitute a reformed sect of Islam founded in 1889 by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. In this article I explore the character and processes of transnational marriage arrangements among Ahmadi Muslims over three generations in the UK. I suggest that the process of conversion to Ahmadiyyat and the organizational structure of Ahmadi mosques have combined to produce a flexible pattern of marriage among Ahmadis that is unusua…
Anthropology and the International Baccalaureate
Dreaming, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK
The Ahmadi Muslim movement, founded in the nineteenth century by a charismatic leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, has been since then one of the most controversial movements within Islam, yet Ahmadis remain the least known of all Muslim communities and in many Islamic countries they have been defined as heretics and subjected to persecution. Despite hostility from other Muslim groups, the Ahmadis have been able to establish resilient communities whose s…
The Chief Examiner Role in Pre-University Anthropology
This article draws on the author's experience as both an A level and an IB Chief Examiner to compare these roles within the AQA and the IB and discuss their demands. She reflects on their different institutional cultures, the nature of assessment and curriculum development and the responsibilities placed on examiners
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by other Muslims and one that continues to face persecution in Pakistan, the country the Ahmadis made their home after the partition of India in 1947. Structu…
Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan
This chapter examines the mutual transformations of ritual and landscape in the desert region of Rajasthan in contemporary north-west India. These transformations are understood in relation to the social and religious history of the area; the equally important mythical understandings of the region; recent political transformations which have taken place in India; the violence of communalism serving to divide Hindu from Muslim; environmental conce…
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
Ceremonial occasions
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2)
This is the introduction to the second part of a special section that spans two issues of Hau (14 [1] and 14 [2]). The articles in the special section focus on home and home-making and all that this entails for Muslims who have left their homes or cannot be fully at home in their home places. Across countries and continents, across sects and in different local contexts, with diverse histories of migration, the articles explore what home is and wh…
Diaspora as home
The spiritual home of Ahmadiyya Muslims and physical home of their leader has moved from India to Pakistan to London in under a century. These relocations signal the communal dislocation and diasporic spread of Ahmadis. Some collective experiences of migration, encompassing memories and myths of the original homeland, persist; others, including the idea that the ancestral homeland is a place of return, require a more complicated historical explic…
Pre-university anthropology education
This introduction to the special section on pre-university anthropology outlines the current context of anthropology teaching and learning in schools. It briefly locates contemporary pre-university anthropology education in historical context, covering the establishment of the International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology Programme, the short-lived Anthropology A-Level, the recently established qualifications in anthropology in Sco…
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works)