Katherine Pratt Ewing
Biographic Data
| ID | 81813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Pratt Ewing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine Pratt |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewing |
| SIGNATURE | EWING K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8776-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 495 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Modern Muslims and Jahiliyya: Mapping Secular Spaces through an Islamic Notion of Time, Place, Ignorance, and Otherness
For early Muslims, Islam created a temporal rupture: jāhiliyya signified pre-Islamic Arabia and the ignorance and intemperance associated with it. In the twentieth century, Islamic reformists recast jāhiliyya as a form of dissent against the empty spaces and measured time of secularism, sharply distinguishing secular spaces from Islam, with a particular focus on nationalism as a threat to Islam and the sovereignty of God. Specifying some of these…
The Khwajasara and the Malang: Gender, desire, and the path to God in modern Pakistan
The dream of Pakistan and the unIslamic other
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
Psychoanalysis, the Sufi, and the Story
Omnia El Shakry's Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt and Sarah Pinto's The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis each begin with an account of non-European psychoanalytic theorists working at the cusp of the postcolonial era, and each raises the ethical question of how the self and its projects are connected to the world and to religious traditions at a time of acute social transformation. F…
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity
Embodied Metaphor: Playing with Gender in South Asian Sufism
This paper brings the life and social world of a cross-dressing Sufi in rural Pakistan into relationship with the Sufi textual tradition to demonstrate that living gendered practices of sexual difference may serve as a form of what I call embodied metaphor that carries multiple layers of significance. Such embodied metaphors are not mere expressions or negotiations of identity but go beyond gender to point to other desires and realities. Drawing …
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies
Naming our sexualities
Terms of a Western discourse of homosexuality shape conflicts surrounding sexual identity that are faced by many Muslims, especially those who live in diasporic communities. Many use essentialized categories to articulate their sexual orientations and express incommensurabilities between their sexuality and their identities as Muslims. This article argues that discursive constructions of the Muslim as traditional other to the secular sexual subje…
Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject by Sherry B. Ortner
Response
Revealing and Concealing: Interpersonal Dynamics and the Negotiation of Identity in the Interview
With questions of identity negotiation and power now central in anthropol-ogy, anthropologists must become more attentive to negotiations in the interview process itself. This article draws together insights from sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism to identify procedures for recognizing multiple layers of signifi-cance in interview responses. Passages from two well-known ethnographies, Dorinne Kondo's Crafting Selves (1990) a…
Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity
Against a backdrop of increasingly vocal assertions that Germany's growing Muslim immigrant population is resisting integration through the development of a "parallel society," this article demonstrates how German social policy literature, the news media, and cinema converge to naturalize assumptions of cultural difference through a mythological process that generates polarized stereotypes of the cultural practices of Turks in Germany. This disco…
A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity; Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany
Research Article| July 01 2003 Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany Katherine Pratt Ewing Katherine Pratt Ewing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 405–431. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-405 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Katherine Pratt Ewing; Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Tur…
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam. KATHERINE PRATT EWING. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1997; 312 pp. Reviewed by ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN Utrecht University Arguing sainthood: Modernity, psychoanalysis, and Islam is an intriguing ethnography based on two years of fieldwork among Sufi teachers, religious mendicants, and middle-class Pakistani in the city of Lahore. Katherine Pratt Ewing draws creatively on the work of Fren…
Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries: Metaphors for Negotiating Multiple Identities
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories of subjectivity, Ewing examines the production of identity in the context of a complex social field of conflicting ideologies and interests.Ewin…
Rhetorics of Self-Making
All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis. Stanley N. Kurtz
Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture. Gilbert HERDT and Robert J. STOLLER
Society for Psychological Anthropology
This is the first issue of a
Dreams from a Saint: Anthropological Atheism and the Temptation to Believe
The Illusion of Wholeness: Culture, Self and the Experience of Inconsistency
Dreams from a Saint: Anthropological Atheism and the Temptation to Believe
Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family
EthosVolume 19, Issue 2 p. 131-160 Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family KATHERINE P. EWING, KATHERINE P. EWING Visiting Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N.CSearch for more papers by this author KATHERINE P. EWING, KATHERINE P. EWING Visiting Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N…
The Politics of Sufism: Redefining the Saints of Pakistan
In Pakistan Muslim shrines have traditionally been maintained by hereditary saints (pirs), who often command a large following. Leaders of Pakistan have felt that the organization of the shrines has been incompatible with their political and religious goals. This article examines how the governments of Ayub Khan and his successors not only have established an administrative policy aimed at direct control of the shrines and a diminution of the pow…
The dream of spiritual initiation and the organization of self representations among Pakistani sufis
Pakistani dreams of initiation into a sufi order illustrate how a dream may have the power to transform the dreamer by becoming the basis for a new, semiotically constituted self representation. The semiotic power of the dream can be understood only by considering several aspects of the dreaming process: how the manifest dream content simultaneously replicates a cultural template and expresses the dreamer's idiosyncratic concerns and conflicts, h…
Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity
Against a backdrop of increasingly vocal assertions that Germany's growing Muslim immigrant population is resisting integration through the development of a "parallel society," this article demonstrates how German social policy literature, the news media, and cinema converge to naturalize assumptions of cultural difference through a mythological process that generates polarized stereotypes of the cultural practices of Turks in Germany. This disco…
Clinical Psychoanalysis as an Ethnographic Tool
Revealing and Concealing: Interpersonal Dynamics and the Negotiation of Identity in the Interview
With questions of identity negotiation and power now central in anthropol-ogy, anthropologists must become more attentive to negotiations in the interview process itself. This article draws together insights from sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism to identify procedures for recognizing multiple layers of signifi-cance in interview responses. Passages from two well-known ethnographies, Dorinne Kondo's Crafting Selves (1990) a…
Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries: Metaphors for Negotiating Multiple Identities
Embodied Metaphor: Playing with Gender in South Asian Sufism
This paper brings the life and social world of a cross-dressing Sufi in rural Pakistan into relationship with the Sufi textual tradition to demonstrate that living gendered practices of sexual difference may serve as a form of what I call embodied metaphor that carries multiple layers of significance. Such embodied metaphors are not mere expressions or negotiations of identity but go beyond gender to point to other desires and realities. Drawing …
Sharī 'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam
The Khwajasara and the Malang: Gender, desire, and the path to God in modern Pakistan
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity
Naming our sexualities
Terms of a Western discourse of homosexuality shape conflicts surrounding sexual identity that are faced by many Muslims, especially those who live in diasporic communities. Many use essentialized categories to articulate their sexual orientations and express incommensurabilities between their sexuality and their identities as Muslims. This article argues that discursive constructions of the Muslim as traditional other to the secular sexual subje…
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject by Sherry B. Ortner
Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany
Research Article| July 01 2003 Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany Katherine Pratt Ewing Katherine Pratt Ewing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 405–431. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-405 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Katherine Pratt Ewing; Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Tur…
Rhetorics of Self-Making
The Politics of Sufism: Redefining the Saints of Pakistan
In Pakistan Muslim shrines have traditionally been maintained by hereditary saints (pirs), who often command a large following. Leaders of Pakistan have felt that the organization of the shrines has been incompatible with their political and religious goals. This article examines how the governments of Ayub Khan and his successors not only have established an administrative policy aimed at direct control of the shrines and a diminution of the pow…
Clinical Psychoanalysis as an Ethnographic Tool
Sharī 'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam
The Illusion of Wholeness: Culture, Self and the Experience of Inconsistency
Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam
The dream of spiritual initiation and the organization of self representations among Pakistani sufis
Pakistani dreams of initiation into a sufi order illustrate how a dream may have the power to transform the dreamer by becoming the basis for a new, semiotically constituted self representation. The semiotic power of the dream can be understood only by considering several aspects of the dreaming process: how the manifest dream content simultaneously replicates a cultural template and expresses the dreamer's idiosyncratic concerns and conflicts, h…
Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family
EthosVolume 19, Issue 2 p. 131-160 Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family KATHERINE P. EWING, KATHERINE P. EWING Visiting Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N.CSearch for more papers by this author KATHERINE P. EWING, KATHERINE P. EWING Visiting Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N…
Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society: Papers in Honor of Melford E. Spiro . David K. Jordan , Marc J. Swartz
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family . Margaret Trawick
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives . Frank S. Kessel, Pamela M. Cole , and Dale L. Johnson , eds
Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture. Gilbert HERDT and Robert J. STOLLER
Society for Psychological Anthropology
This is the first issue of a
Dreams from a Saint: Anthropological Atheism and the Temptation to Believe
All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis. Stanley N. Kurtz
Rhetorics of Self-Making
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories of subjectivity, Ewing examines the production of identity in the context of a complex social field of conflicting ideologies and interests.Ewin…
Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries: Metaphors for Negotiating Multiple Identities
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam. KATHERINE PRATT EWING. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1997; 312 pp. Reviewed by ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN Utrecht University Arguing sainthood: Modernity, psychoanalysis, and Islam is an intriguing ethnography based on two years of fieldwork among Sufi teachers, religious mendicants, and middle-class Pakistani in the city of Lahore. Katherine Pratt Ewing draws creatively on the work of Fren…
Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany
Research Article| July 01 2003 Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany Katherine Pratt Ewing Katherine Pratt Ewing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 405–431. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-405 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Katherine Pratt Ewing; Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Tur…
A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity; Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
Response
Revealing and Concealing: Interpersonal Dynamics and the Negotiation of Identity in the Interview
With questions of identity negotiation and power now central in anthropol-ogy, anthropologists must become more attentive to negotiations in the interview process itself. This article draws together insights from sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism to identify procedures for recognizing multiple layers of signifi-cance in interview responses. Passages from two well-known ethnographies, Dorinne Kondo's Crafting Selves (1990) a…
Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity
Against a backdrop of increasingly vocal assertions that Germany's growing Muslim immigrant population is resisting integration through the development of a "parallel society," this article demonstrates how German social policy literature, the news media, and cinema converge to naturalize assumptions of cultural difference through a mythological process that generates polarized stereotypes of the cultural practices of Turks in Germany. This disco…
Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject by Sherry B. Ortner
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