Shirin A Khanmohamadi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirin A Khanmohamadi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Khanmohamadi |
| SIGNATURE | KHANMOHAMADI S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
After Abu-Lughod
Ecologies of things and texts
Surekha Davies. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
As Surekha Davies writes in her introduction, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human “demonstrates how maps illustrated human variation across the globe in new ways in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries” (1). Through exhaustive and careful comparative analysis of the descriptions of Amerindians both on European maps and in other literatures of ethnographic representation—travel literature, encyclopedias, natural histori…
Durendal, translated
In Light of Another's Word
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe.
Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades
This article finds in Joinville's late crusading narrative, the Vie de Saint Louis, evidence of past and continuing dialogues and a community of understanding between putative enemies in a theater of war. I argue that the text's mutually derived, Franco-Islamic references and syncretic customs attest to the everyday cross-fertilization and dialogue that took place in the medieval contact zone of Outre-mer irrespective of official crusading ideolo…
Durendal, translated
Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades
This article finds in Joinville's late crusading narrative, the Vie de Saint Louis, evidence of past and continuing dialogues and a community of understanding between putative enemies in a theater of war. I argue that the text's mutually derived, Franco-Islamic references and syncretic customs attest to the everyday cross-fertilization and dialogue that took place in the medieval contact zone of Outre-mer irrespective of official crusading ideolo…
Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades
This article finds in Joinville's late crusading narrative, the Vie de Saint Louis, evidence of past and continuing dialogues and a community of understanding between putative enemies in a theater of war. I argue that the text's mutually derived, Franco-Islamic references and syncretic customs attest to the everyday cross-fertilization and dialogue that took place in the medieval contact zone of Outre-mer irrespective of official crusading ideolo…
In Light of Another's Word
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe.
Durendal, translated
Surekha Davies. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
As Surekha Davies writes in her introduction, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human “demonstrates how maps illustrated human variation across the globe in new ways in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries” (1). Through exhaustive and careful comparative analysis of the descriptions of Amerindians both on European maps and in other literatures of ethnographic representation—travel literature, encyclopedias, natural histori…
Ecologies of things and texts
After Abu-Lughod
Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Middle Ages (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works)