The Hallowed Summoning of Tradition
Body Techniques in Construction of the Sacred Tanbur of Western Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3033526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Navid Fozi (0000-0002-7321-7273, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-205 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2007.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2085643003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
In this article, drawing on my fieldwork in the Farmáni workshop in western Iran, I focus on the socially and ideologically informed body techniques of crafting the sacred lute-type tanbur. I show that the superiority of Farmáni tanburs transcends the family's pure Weberian "traditional authority" within the Ahl-e Haqq of Gurán; rather, this superiority is established upon Farmáni's informed body techniques that enable construction of unblemished tanburs, as the Ahl-e Haqq understand them. In order to provide insight into the Farmáni's embodied knowledge tradition, Barth's anthropology of knowledge framework, Marcel Mauss's concept of "body techniques" and Charles Hirschkind's notion of "perceptual capacities" are employed. Engaging the dialectical of the modern demands for more voluminous sound and the Farmáni's technical modification crafting the instrument, I contemplate the question of tradition in terms of "continuities of disciplined sensibility
Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
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Distinction
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Logic of Practice
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Economy and Society
Redefining the truth
Sociology and Psychology
Inner Truth and Outer History
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual
The Ethics of Listening
An Anthropology of Knowledge
Visiting knowledge in anthropology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |