Gabriele Vom Bruck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriele Vom Bruck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriele Vom |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruck |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCK G V |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story
Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for reform of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored father, who was accused of treason, takes center stage in this biographical narrative. Amat al-Latif enjoyed a privileged childhood in a high-ranking family at the heart of Yemeni politics; yet the failed revol…
Submerged History: Fragments for a Biographic Narrative of 1948
This article deals with the reminiscences of Amat al-Laṭīf al-Wazīr, only daughter of ʿAbdullah al-Wazīr, one of the leaders of the Yemeni reform movement which sought to establish a constitutional government in the late 1940s. Against the background of her family’s devastation and dispossession following the failed revolt, the article explores the intricacies of her memory. Most studies of this period tend to privilege men’s heroic political nar…
Of Sand and Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia, written by Nadav Samin, 2015
A few weeks after Saudi Arabia dissolved diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 5, 2017, the Saudi Grand Mufti 'Abd al-'Azīz al-Shaīkh and members of his family denied that they had kinship ties with the Qatarī ruling House.Emphasising their national belonging, they noted that they had never been proud of their tribal affiliation, and that indeed this was discouraged by the Qur'ān.They also demanded that the Qatarī mosque named after their illustriou…
The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World
The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Although specific conditions in individual countries tha…
Yemen on the Brink
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen by Lisa Wedeen
Regimes of Piety Revisited: Zaydī Political Moralities in Republican Yemen
The gradual decline of Zaydī-Shī'ī Islam in Yemen occurred within contexts of state transformation over the past three centuries, culminating in the revolution of 1962 that abolished the imāmate. It has since lost its institutional framework and struggled to define its location in the newly established republic. The republic's commitment to an Islam which transcends the schools of law (madhāhib) has become part of Yemen's nationalist project and …
The Substance of Northwest Amazonian Names
INTRODUCTION The high profile of names and naming systems (“onomastics”) is a distinctive hallmark of the ethnographic literature on lowland South America. Names were typically excluded from anthropological research on kinship – witness textbooks on the subject – but when it came to the complex social structures of the Gê and Bororo or the Kariera-like section systems of the Panoans, relations predicated on the transfer of names turned out to be …
Teknonymy and the Evocation of the “Social” Among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar
INTRODUCTION Names are words, and as words they are constituent elements in speech acts. Alone, or in combination with other linguistic phenomena, they are sounds that, as a result of the conventions learnt by speakers of a particular community, evoke in the minds of hearers or speakers' mental responses (see the chapter by Lambek (Chapter 6) for a very similar theoretical position). It is important to begin a discussion of names in this rather p…
Why the Dead Do Not Bear Names: The Orokaiva Name System
In what follows, I attempt to show that among the Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea, the use of a name system constitutes the morphological framework that maps the relations between people and groups through time. This, of course, does not mean that this system is intangible, but on the contrary, that while it is repeatedly reshaped by other dimensions of Orokaiva social life, like historical events, wars, individual endeavors and so forth, its capaci…
What's in a Name? Name Bestowal and the Identity of Spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; Rose Macaulay, if called by her parents Gladys, would have been the same person and written the same books; a deity by any other name might remain as terrifying, loving, unpredictable, or as some Hindus and Malagasy say, as fragrant (Malg. Andriamañitry ). But flowers, persons, and deities are not the same order of phenomena. Roses – despite the multiplication of varieties as the logic of commodities…
Injurious Names: Naming, Disavowal, and Recuperation in Contexts of Slavery and Emancipation
In April 1999, in the course of a conference on “Race in 21st Century America” held at Michigan State University, I attended an acrimonious public debate staged between Dinesh D'Souza, the author of The End of Race? and the African American political scientist Manning Marable. Marable argued for the uniquely oppressive character of African American experience in the United States, past and present; D'Souza, predictably enough, was there to reiter…
Naturalising, Neutralising Women's Bodies: The “Headscarf Affair” and the Politics of Representation
The recent “headscarf affair” has created a divisive national crisis in several European countries. Like Turkey, France and Germany have introduced legislation prohibiting “conspicuous” religious symbols in government institutions. The article argues that interpretations of ‘Muslim’ female head covering as a sign of oppression ignore their resemblance to European symbols of ideal womanhood. The question of the ‘ethnicity’ of the symbol is thus el…
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women
Anthropology of Names and Naming
Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen
Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite which was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen. For over a millennium, they had enjoyed exclusive rights to
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
Le nom comme signe corporel. L'exemple de la noblesse yéménite
Le nom comme signe corporel. L'exemple des femmes de la noblesse yéménite (G. Vom Bruck). II est courant, tant dans les cultures euro-américaines que dans celles du Moyen-Orient, que les noms constituent la personne sociale et lui assignent une catégorie sexuelle spécifique. Malgré l'importance accordée à une appellation appropriée selon l'appartenance sexuelle, la conception de l'honneur due au statut et celle du corps féminin requéraient que le…
Le nom comme signe corporel L'exemple des femmes de la noblesse yéménite
Il est courant, tant dans les cultures euro-américaines que dans celles du Moyen-Orient, que les noms constituent la personne sociale et lui assignent une catégorie sexuelle spécifique. Malgré l'importance accordée à une appellation appropriée selon l'appartenance sexuelle, la conception de l'honneur due au statut et celle du corps féminin requéraient que les femmes de la dernière dynastie royale yéménite portent un nom d'homme. Au cours de leurs…
The Zaydi Sādah of the Yemen: The Temporalities of a Religious Tradition
Ibrahim's childhood
The recent collection of biographies by Edmund Burke III, Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (1993), sets out to portray non-elite Middle Eastern men and women. Through these biographies the book intends to 'present Middle Eastern history as it might appear when viewed from the bottom up'.' Burke is concerned to 'rethink' Middle Eastern history which, in his view, has been presented as having being determined by such varying imperson…
Disputing Descent-Based Authority in the Idiom of Religion: The Case of the Republic of Yemen
DISPUTING DESCENT-BASED AUTHORITY IN THE IDIOM OF RELIGION: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN* BY GABRIELE VOM BRUCK London The overthrow of the Zaido-Sho{o Imamate in Yemen in 1962 coincided with the intensification of the conflict over hegemony on the Arabian Peninsula between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. That year also marked the establishment of the Islamic World League all of whose members belonged to either the salafoya or wahh ̧boya reformist m…
Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle East. Most earlier studies have been written from th…
Muslim Politics
Kinship and the embodiment of history
1998). Kinship and the embodiment of history. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 263-298
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women
Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle East. Most earlier studies have been written from th…
A House Turned Inside Out: Inhabiting Space in a Yemeni City
Based on the analysis of the organization of space in Yemen, this article explores whether Bourdieu's model of the Kabyle house is applicable outside Algeria. While agreeing with Bourdieu's contention that spatial meanings are invoked through the practice of men and women, I argue that the embodiment of socio-spatial divisions is contingent upon both gender and non-gender-based principles such as age and status affiliation. I suggest, furthermore…
Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen
Elusive Bodies: The Politics of Aesthetics among Yemeni Elite Women
Naturalising, Neutralising Women's Bodies: The “Headscarf Affair” and the Politics of Representation
The recent “headscarf affair” has created a divisive national crisis in several European countries. Like Turkey, France and Germany have introduced legislation prohibiting “conspicuous” religious symbols in government institutions. The article argues that interpretations of ‘Muslim’ female head covering as a sign of oppression ignore their resemblance to European symbols of ideal womanhood. The question of the ‘ethnicity’ of the symbol is thus el…
Kinship and the embodiment of history
1998). Kinship and the embodiment of history. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 263-298
Le nom comme signe corporel L'exemple des femmes de la noblesse yéménite
Il est courant, tant dans les cultures euro-américaines que dans celles du Moyen-Orient, que les noms constituent la personne sociale et lui assignent une catégorie sexuelle spécifique. Malgré l'importance accordée à une appellation appropriée selon l'appartenance sexuelle, la conception de l'honneur due au statut et celle du corps féminin requéraient que les femmes de la dernière dynastie royale yéménite portent un nom d'homme. Au cours de leurs…
The Zaydi Sādah of the Yemen: The Temporalities of a Religious Tradition
The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administrative and legal contracts, are among the fundamental ways that authority is established and maintained in a complex state. Yet few scholars have explor…
The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administrative and legal contracts, are among the fundamental ways that authority is established and maintained in a complex state. Yet few scholars have explor…
Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion
Ellen Fleischmann, Louise Cainkar, Miriam Cooke, Susanne Dahlgren, Rhoda Kannaneh, Akram Khater, Rosemary Sayigh, Gabriele vom Bruck, Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion, Middle East Report, No. 205, Middle East Studies Networks: The Politics of a Field (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 30-32
Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen
A House Turned Inside Out: Inhabiting Space in a Yemeni City
Based on the analysis of the organization of space in Yemen, this article explores whether Bourdieu's model of the Kabyle house is applicable outside Algeria. While agreeing with Bourdieu's contention that spatial meanings are invoked through the practice of men and women, I argue that the embodiment of socio-spatial divisions is contingent upon both gender and non-gender-based principles such as age and status affiliation. I suggest, furthermore…
Elusive Bodies: The Politics of Aesthetics among Yemeni Elite Women
Disputing Descent-Based Authority in the Idiom of Religion: The Case of the Republic of Yemen
DISPUTING DESCENT-BASED AUTHORITY IN THE IDIOM OF RELIGION: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN* BY GABRIELE VOM BRUCK London The overthrow of the Zaido-Sho{o Imamate in Yemen in 1962 coincided with the intensification of the conflict over hegemony on the Arabian Peninsula between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. That year also marked the establishment of the Islamic World League all of whose members belonged to either the salafoya or wahh ̧boya reformist m…
Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle East. Most earlier studies have been written from th…
Muslim Politics
Kinship and the embodiment of history
1998). Kinship and the embodiment of history. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 263-298
The Zaydi Sādah of the Yemen: The Temporalities of a Religious Tradition
Ibrahim's childhood
The recent collection of biographies by Edmund Burke III, Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (1993), sets out to portray non-elite Middle Eastern men and women. Through these biographies the book intends to 'present Middle Eastern history as it might appear when viewed from the bottom up'.' Burke is concerned to 'rethink' Middle Eastern history which, in his view, has been presented as having being determined by such varying imperson…
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
Le nom comme signe corporel. L'exemple de la noblesse yéménite
Le nom comme signe corporel. L'exemple des femmes de la noblesse yéménite (G. Vom Bruck). II est courant, tant dans les cultures euro-américaines que dans celles du Moyen-Orient, que les noms constituent la personne sociale et lui assignent une catégorie sexuelle spécifique. Malgré l'importance accordée à une appellation appropriée selon l'appartenance sexuelle, la conception de l'honneur due au statut et celle du corps féminin requéraient que le…
Le nom comme signe corporel L'exemple des femmes de la noblesse yéménite
Il est courant, tant dans les cultures euro-américaines que dans celles du Moyen-Orient, que les noms constituent la personne sociale et lui assignent une catégorie sexuelle spécifique. Malgré l'importance accordée à une appellation appropriée selon l'appartenance sexuelle, la conception de l'honneur due au statut et celle du corps féminin requéraient que les femmes de la dernière dynastie royale yéménite portent un nom d'homme. Au cours de leurs…
Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen
Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite which was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen. For over a millennium, they had enjoyed exclusive rights to
Anthropology of Names and Naming
Naturalising, Neutralising Women's Bodies: The “Headscarf Affair” and the Politics of Representation
The recent “headscarf affair” has created a divisive national crisis in several European countries. Like Turkey, France and Germany have introduced legislation prohibiting “conspicuous” religious symbols in government institutions. The article argues that interpretations of ‘Muslim’ female head covering as a sign of oppression ignore their resemblance to European symbols of ideal womanhood. The question of the ‘ethnicity’ of the symbol is thus el…
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women
The Substance of Northwest Amazonian Names
INTRODUCTION The high profile of names and naming systems (“onomastics”) is a distinctive hallmark of the ethnographic literature on lowland South America. Names were typically excluded from anthropological research on kinship – witness textbooks on the subject – but when it came to the complex social structures of the Gê and Bororo or the Kariera-like section systems of the Panoans, relations predicated on the transfer of names turned out to be …
Teknonymy and the Evocation of the “Social” Among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar
INTRODUCTION Names are words, and as words they are constituent elements in speech acts. Alone, or in combination with other linguistic phenomena, they are sounds that, as a result of the conventions learnt by speakers of a particular community, evoke in the minds of hearers or speakers' mental responses (see the chapter by Lambek (Chapter 6) for a very similar theoretical position). It is important to begin a discussion of names in this rather p…
Why the Dead Do Not Bear Names: The Orokaiva Name System
In what follows, I attempt to show that among the Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea, the use of a name system constitutes the morphological framework that maps the relations between people and groups through time. This, of course, does not mean that this system is intangible, but on the contrary, that while it is repeatedly reshaped by other dimensions of Orokaiva social life, like historical events, wars, individual endeavors and so forth, its capaci…
What's in a Name? Name Bestowal and the Identity of Spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; Rose Macaulay, if called by her parents Gladys, would have been the same person and written the same books; a deity by any other name might remain as terrifying, loving, unpredictable, or as some Hindus and Malagasy say, as fragrant (Malg. Andriamañitry ). But flowers, persons, and deities are not the same order of phenomena. Roses – despite the multiplication of varieties as the logic of commodities…
Injurious Names: Naming, Disavowal, and Recuperation in Contexts of Slavery and Emancipation
In April 1999, in the course of a conference on “Race in 21st Century America” held at Michigan State University, I attended an acrimonious public debate staged between Dinesh D'Souza, the author of The End of Race? and the African American political scientist Manning Marable. Marable argued for the uniquely oppressive character of African American experience in the United States, past and present; D'Souza, predictably enough, was there to reiter…
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen by Lisa Wedeen
Regimes of Piety Revisited: Zaydī Political Moralities in Republican Yemen
The gradual decline of Zaydī-Shī'ī Islam in Yemen occurred within contexts of state transformation over the past three centuries, culminating in the revolution of 1962 that abolished the imāmate. It has since lost its institutional framework and struggled to define its location in the newly established republic. The republic's commitment to an Islam which transcends the schools of law (madhāhib) has become part of Yemen's nationalist project and …
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