Destiny in hindsight
Impotentiality and intentional action in contemporary Yemen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2226236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luca Nevola (University of Milano-Bicocca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 300-313 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/698224 |
| OpenAlex | W2809229149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
Zaydis are a Shiite sect, widespread in Highland Yemen, that upholds a doctrine of free will and human accountability. However, in everyday discursive practices, they indulge in a widespread usage of a destiny-related language. Building on this apparent contradiction, this article investigates how social actors give meaning to critical durations of their life through the distinction between qadar and nasib, thus investigating the interplay of intentionality and temporality. Moving away from the English gloss destiny, the article argues that the distinction between qadar (the power to act within limits fixed by God's decree) and nasib (the actualization of this potential) describes a critical duration characterized by uncertain futures and multiaspectual moralities. Narratives organized by references to nasib can thus be interpreted as ex post facto ethical reflections through which social actors "step back" and rationalize their past lived experience
Aesthetics · Contradiction · Destiny (ISS module · Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Hindsight bias · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Temporality · African history and culture analysis · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Middle East
Things As They Are
Ordinary Ethics
The Spiritual Background of Early Islam
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Domestic government
Theories of Distinction
Four Lectures on Ethics
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Being worthy of protection. The dialectics of gender attributes in Yemen
Love, Mobile Phones and the Codification of Intimacy in Contemporary Yemen
Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam
Rediscovering the “everyday” Muslim
The Anthropology of Time
Lifeworlds
The Interpretation of Cultures
Muscles, Morals and Mind
Toward an Anthropology of Ethics
In Defiance of Destiny
The Subject of Virtue
Fatalism in India
Honour and Shame
On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography
The Cultural Anthropology of Time
Dreams from Elsewhere
The makeup of destiny
The impasse of modernity
For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom
When the Future Decides
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |