Michael Gilsenan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 90865 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Gilsenan |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Gilsenan |
| ASSINATURA | GILSENAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northeast Catholic College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 397 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Lying, honor, and contradiction
Previous article FreeLying, honor, and contradictionMichael GilsenanMichael GilsenanNew York University Search for more articles by this author New York UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSociological structures differ profoundly according to the measure of lying which operates in them.- Georg SimmelThis essay foc…
Reflections on dysfunctional functioning in the political economy of paper
Comment on Hull, Matthew. 2012. Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press
Translating Colonial Fortunes
This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations that crisscrossed multiple jurisdictions, local, British, Dutch, and that of the Ottoman Empire. Properties of different kinds were held in different places under different …
Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia
1. Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia Anthony Reid 2. Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule: Evolution of a Discourse Abdullah Saeed 3. Islam and Cultural Modernity: In Pursuit of Democratic Pluralism in Asia Bassam Tibi 4. The Crisis of Religious Authority: Education, Information and Technology Bryan Turner 5. Attempts to Use the Ottoman Caliphate as the Legitimator of British Rule in India Azmi Ozcan 6. An Argumentative Indian: Maulana Hu…
The Education of Edward Said
Signs of truth
This lecture is in three sections. The first discusses the role of classificatory practices distinguishing magic from religion in social life and in narratives of modernity. Concepts of enchantment have been reintroduced into theories of modernity as the Weberian notion of 'ridding the world of magic' has been questioned. The second part sketches some of the characteristic tensions in the Qur'an concerning the signs of truth in the Islamic commun…
Lords of the Lebanese Marches
Lords of the Lebanese Marches
Shorter Notices
Lebanon's Gateway to Syria
Non‐fiction reviews
Behind the Wall: a journey through China by Colin Thubron, London: Penguin. 1988. 308pp. £4.99pb Riding the Iron Rooster: by train through China by Paul Theroux, London: Penguin. 1989. 512pp. £4.99pb Lords of Poverty: the free‐wheeling lifestyles, power, prestige and corruption of the multi‐billion dollar aid business by Graham Hancock, London: Macmillan. 1989. 234pp. £14.95hb Does Aid Work in India? by Michael Lipton and John Toye, London: Routl…
Today’s problems, tomorrow’s solutions
Journal Article Today’s problems, tomorrow’s solutions: the future structure of Muslim society and The crisis of modern Islam: a preindustrial culture in the scientific-technological age Get access Today's problems, tomorrow's solutions: the future structure of Muslim society. Edited by Abdullah Omar Naseef. London: Mansell. 1988. 180pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 7201 1991 x.The crisis of modern Islam: a preindustrial culture in the scientific-techno…
Apprehensions of Islam
Radical Islam
Word of Honour
Shi'ism and social protest
Islam in a world of nation-states
Journal Article Islam in a world of nation-states Get access Islam in a world of nation-states. By James P. Piscatori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1986. 193pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 521 32985 X. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 521 33867 0. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan 1Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, …
Poetics of Manhood
Bargaining for Reality
Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt; An Essay in the Sociology of Religion#
Recognizing Islam
An anthropologist's introduction the men of learning and authority the community of suffering and the world reversed the operations of grace miracles and worldly power - lords and sheikhs in North Lebanon sheikhs and the inner secrets everywhere and nowhere - forms of Islam in North Africa forming and transforming space the sacred in the city the world turned inside out - forms of Islam in Egypt Islamic signs and interrogations afterword - a way …
Recognizing Islam
Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt
Recognizing Islam
Ritual and Knowledge Among the Baktaman of New Guinea
The Greek Gift, Politics in a Cypriot Village
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Sohar
Shi'ism and social protest
From Village to Suburb
Lords of the Lebanese Marches
Islam in a world of nation-states
Journal Article Islam in a world of nation-states Get access Islam in a world of nation-states. By James P. Piscatori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1986. 193pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 521 32985 X. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 521 33867 0. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan 1Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, …
Islam in revolution
Journal Article Islam in revolution: fundamentalism in the Arab world Get access Islam in revolution: fundamentalism in the Arab world. By R. Hrair Dekmejian. New York: Syracuse University Press. 1985. 249pp. Index. $26.00; ISBN 0 8156 2329 1. Pb.: $12.95; ISBN 0 8156 2330 5. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan 1Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue …
Lying, honor, and contradiction
Previous article FreeLying, honor, and contradictionMichael GilsenanMichael GilsenanNew York University Search for more articles by this author New York UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSociological structures differ profoundly according to the measure of lying which operates in them.- Georg SimmelThis essay foc…
Signs of truth
This lecture is in three sections. The first discusses the role of classificatory practices distinguishing magic from religion in social life and in narratives of modernity. Concepts of enchantment have been reintroduced into theories of modernity as the Weberian notion of 'ridding the world of magic' has been questioned. The second part sketches some of the characteristic tensions in the Qur'an concerning the signs of truth in the Islamic commun…
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Domination as Social Practice
Le fonctionnement du systeme feodal dans la vallee d'Akkor dans le nord du Liban : son origine, les seigneurs et leur mode de relations sociales, leur autorite et sa legitimation, la situation de la paysannerie, le systeme de valeurs et l'importance de la notion d'honneur, le recours a la violence dans les relations sociales
Translating Colonial Fortunes
This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations that crisscrossed multiple jurisdictions, local, British, Dutch, and that of the Ottoman Empire. Properties of different kinds were held in different places under different …
Some Factors in the Decline of the Sufi Orders in Modern Egypt
Poetics of Manhood
Law, arbitrariness and the power of the lords of North Lebanon
The paper focuses on the role of arbitrariness and violence and their relation to law-in-practice. The locus is the semi-feudal society of North Lebanon and more widely the Lebanon as a whole. Weber and others have suggested that the arbitrary is an important element in the characterisation of specific political types of domination such as patrimonialism. There are ambiguities in this kind of treatment which are explored for the case of the beys …
Word of Honour
Some Factors in the Decline of the Sufi Orders in Modern Egypt
Ethnology
La famille musulmane turque
Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt
Class Conflict in Egypt 1945–1970
Journal Article Class Conflict in Egypt 1945–1970 Get access Class Conflict in Egypt 1945–1970. By Mahmoud Hussein. Translated by Michael and Susanne Chirman, Alfred Ehrenfeld and Kathy Brown. New York, London: Monthly Review Press. 1974. 379 pp. $13.95. £5⋅45. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1974, Pages 662–663, https://d…
Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village
The Greek Gift, Politics in a Cypriot Village
Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt, An Essay in the Sociology of Religion
The Ritual Process
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of Communitas. He characterises it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behaviour and symbolism may be used as a key to understandi…
From Village to Suburb
Ritual and Knowledge Among the Baktaman of New Guinea
In Search of Sadat
‘I, Anwar el-Sadat, a peasant born and brought up on the banks of the Nile—where man first witnessed the dawn of time—present this book to readers everywhere.’ The tone of voice is lofty. The gaze that seems, in the cover photograph, to be both inward to some hidden
Algeria 1960…Essays
L'Islam dans l'Égypte contemporaine
L'un des traits marquants de l'Égypte post-nassérienne consiste en une volonté très nette, commune à différentes classes et couches sociales, de trouver des modèles d'analyse et des modes d'expression qui permettent de saisir la réalité quotidienne de la société et, dans un même mouvement, de la transformer et de la maîtriser. Toute une gamme de discours viennent décrire et guider la reconstruction, la réforme ou, pour les plus radicaux, la recon…
Approaching the Islamic Revolution
Memories of a Sentimental Education
Reflections on a Village in Time of War
Sohar
Law, arbitrariness and the power of the lords of North Lebanon
The paper focuses on the role of arbitrariness and violence and their relation to law-in-practice. The locus is the semi-feudal society of North Lebanon and more widely the Lebanon as a whole. Weber and others have suggested that the arbitrary is an important element in the characterisation of specific political types of domination such as patrimonialism. There are ambiguities in this kind of treatment which are explored for the case of the beys …
Bargaining for Reality
Islam in revolution
Journal Article Islam in revolution: fundamentalism in the Arab world Get access Islam in revolution: fundamentalism in the Arab world. By R. Hrair Dekmejian. New York: Syracuse University Press. 1985. 249pp. Index. $26.00; ISBN 0 8156 2329 1. Pb.: $12.95; ISBN 0 8156 2330 5. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan 1Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue …
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Domination as Social Practice
Le fonctionnement du systeme feodal dans la vallee d'Akkor dans le nord du Liban : son origine, les seigneurs et leur mode de relations sociales, leur autorite et sa legitimation, la situation de la paysannerie, le systeme de valeurs et l'importance de la notion d'honneur, le recours a la violence dans les relations sociales
Shi'ism and social protest
Islam in a world of nation-states
Journal Article Islam in a world of nation-states Get access Islam in a world of nation-states. By James P. Piscatori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1986. 193pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 521 32985 X. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 521 33867 0. Michael Gilsenan Michael Gilsenan 1Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, …
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