Beyond cultural intimacy

The tensions that make truth for India's Ahmadi Muslims

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2260985
AutoresNicholas H A Evans (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT United Kingdom, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume44
Fascículo3
Páginas490-502
Data de publicação2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/amet.12524
OpenAlexW2617268372
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas24

How should anthropologists write about the public self-presentation of minority groups? In the Indian town of Qadian, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-a marginal group with a long history of persecution in South Asia-uses visual media to counter hostility and produce images of its members as exemplary Muslims. That such images are artificially produced is an intimate secret shared by the town's residents. Understanding this secret without undermining the political struggle that Ahmadi Muslims are engaged in means moving beyond the idea that truth must be located in either the everyday or the public. For Ahmadis in Qadian, the disjuncture between these realms is a space of possibility that reveals truth. [cultural intimacy, visual media, exemplarity, self-representation, Ahmadiyya, Islam, India

Hinduism · Hostility · Islam · Media studies · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Public space · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies