Taylor M Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taylor M Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taylor M |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE T M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Knots and Needles
This article presents knots, needles, and spindles as material archives of women’s labor and magical knowledge through an examination of tibb al-rukka (the medicine of the distaff) in modern Egypt. It then traces the practice of knot magic in the Mediterranean and Islamicate world to consider the interwoven, transtemporal histories of domestic work, magic, and marginalization
An (Un)Natural History
Can emancipatory, decolonial histories of science be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? To answer this question, this essay presents the case study of a rhinoceros horn amulet (qarn al-khartit), an ethnographic object collected by the British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the late 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how th…
Betraying Behita
At the climax of Egyptian author Out el Kouloub's novel, Zanouba , the reader is witness to a crime. We find ourselves in Matariyya, a village north of Cairo, in a somber bedchamber with a blind shaykh. It is the room where only a week before Zanouba, the novel's titular character, suffered a forced miscarriage in the final month of her pregnancy and lost her long-coveted male child. The women of the household are lined up in front of the shaykh—…
Betraying Behita
At the climax of Egyptian author Out el Kouloub's novel, Zanouba , the reader is witness to a crime. We find ourselves in Matariyya, a village north of Cairo, in a somber bedchamber with a blind shaykh. It is the room where only a week before Zanouba, the novel's titular character, suffered a forced miscarriage in the final month of her pregnancy and lost her long-coveted male child. The women of the household are lined up in front of the shaykh—…
An (Un)Natural History
Can emancipatory, decolonial histories of science be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? To answer this question, this essay presents the case study of a rhinoceros horn amulet (qarn al-khartit), an ethnographic object collected by the British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the late 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how th…
Betraying Behita
At the climax of Egyptian author Out el Kouloub's novel, Zanouba , the reader is witness to a crime. We find ourselves in Matariyya, a village north of Cairo, in a somber bedchamber with a blind shaykh. It is the room where only a week before Zanouba, the novel's titular character, suffered a forced miscarriage in the final month of her pregnancy and lost her long-coveted male child. The women of the household are lined up in front of the shaykh—…
An (Un)Natural History
Can emancipatory, decolonial histories of science be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? To answer this question, this essay presents the case study of a rhinoceros horn amulet (qarn al-khartit), an ethnographic object collected by the British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the late 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how th…
Of Knots and Needles
This article presents knots, needles, and spindles as material archives of women’s labor and magical knowledge through an examination of tibb al-rukka (the medicine of the distaff) in modern Egypt. It then traces the practice of knot magic in the Mediterranean and Islamicate world to consider the interwoven, transtemporal histories of domestic work, magic, and marginalization
Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Acquittal (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Bioethics and Human Rights Issues (1 work) · Character (mathematics (1 work)