Amanda Lanzillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Lanzillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanzillo |
| SIGNATURE | LANZILLO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University 21A Joseph Henry House, , Princeton NJ, 08542 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam
This introduction to the special section “Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam: Beyond Received Frameworks” explores how “the everyday” has been used conceptually across disciplines such as anthropology, history, and religious studies in the study of Islam. Through this special section, the authors argue for renewed focus on the methodologies of studying the everyday, and they assert the importance of studies of Islam in South Asia …
Everyday Muslim Labor in Pashto “Books of Trade
This article analyzes early twentieth-century Pashto-language kasbnamahs, or “books of trade,” to ask how textual sources help us understand the intersections of quotidian laboring and religious practices. These short, printed treatises describe idealized Muslim practices of blacksmithing, carpentry, and pottery, providing prophetic and Sufi lineages for work, as well as Quranic verses that workers should recite during their daily labor. The arti…
Introduction to Making Artisans: Artisanal Lives and Production in South Asian History
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans began publicly asserting the de…
Building Peshawar: Labor, Security, and Infrastructure at the Edge of Empire
This article focuses on the recruitment and organization of labor for projects of colonial state infrastructure in the city of Peshawar between 1849 and 1947. Providing access to the Khyber Pass—and thus Afghanistan—Peshawar was an urban center from which the colonial state sought to organize security on the Indo-Afghan frontier. Peshawari laborers, recruited to support the city’s large colonial military cantonment, railways, jail, and other infr…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
Building Peshawar: Labor, Security, and Infrastructure at the Edge of Empire
This article focuses on the recruitment and organization of labor for projects of colonial state infrastructure in the city of Peshawar between 1849 and 1947. Providing access to the Khyber Pass—and thus Afghanistan—Peshawar was an urban center from which the colonial state sought to organize security on the Indo-Afghan frontier. Peshawari laborers, recruited to support the city’s large colonial military cantonment, railways, jail, and other infr…
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans began publicly asserting the de…
Introduction to Making Artisans: Artisanal Lives and Production in South Asian History
Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam
This introduction to the special section “Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam: Beyond Received Frameworks” explores how “the everyday” has been used conceptually across disciplines such as anthropology, history, and religious studies in the study of Islam. Through this special section, the authors argue for renewed focus on the methodologies of studying the everyday, and they assert the importance of studies of Islam in South Asia …
Everyday Muslim Labor in Pashto “Books of Trade
This article analyzes early twentieth-century Pashto-language kasbnamahs, or “books of trade,” to ask how textual sources help us understand the intersections of quotidian laboring and religious practices. These short, printed treatises describe idealized Muslim practices of blacksmithing, carpentry, and pottery, providing prophetic and Sufi lineages for work, as well as Quranic verses that workers should recite during their daily labor. The arti…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Asian studies (2 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South asia (2 works)