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This book is an anthropological investigation into the different
forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves,
when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a
field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic
research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in
managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty
alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of
contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the
economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates
the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and
synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book
looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging
attentively, critically and productively with the
post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida,
three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in
contemporary philosophy.
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the
techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in
the social lives of the world's Muslims. The volume begins with an
introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to
this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and
reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their
informants' life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow
are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research
experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and
from Yemen to China: thus they explore and compare Islam's social
significance in a variety of settings that are not confined to the
Middle East or South Asia alone. The authors assess how helpful
current anthropological research is in shedding light on Islam's
relationship to contemporary societies.Collectively, the
contributors deploy both theoretical and ethnographic analysis of
key developments in the anthropology of Islam over the last 30
years, even as they extrapolate their findings to address wider
debates over the anthropology of world religions more generally.
Crucially, they also tackle the thorny question of how, in the
current political context, anthropologists might continue
conducting sensitive and nuanced work with Muslim communities.
Finally, an afterword by a scholar of Christianity explores the
conceptual parallels between the book's key themes and the
anthropology of world religions in a broader context. This volume
has key contemporary relevance: for example, its conclusions on the
fluidity of people's relations with Islam will provide an important
counterpoint to many commonly held assumptions about the
incontestability of Islam in the public sphere.
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'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the
Person in Java' is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways
in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java,
Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday
practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and
gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a
theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by
proposing the concept of the 'diaphoron' person and re-deploying
the method of 'total ethnography'.
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the
techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in
the social lives of the world's Muslims. The volume begins with an
introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to
this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and
reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their
informants' life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow
are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research
experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and
from Yemen to China: thus they explore and compare Islam's social
significance in a variety of settings that are not confined to the
Middle East or South Asia alone. The authors assess how helpful
current anthropological research is in shedding light on Islam's
relationship to contemporary societies. Collectively, the
contributors deploy both theoretical and ethnographic analysis of
key developments in the anthropology of Islam over the last 30
years, even as they extrapolate their findings to address wider
debates over the anthropology of world religions more generally.
Crucially, they also tackle the thorny question of how, in the
current political context, anthropologists might continue
conducting sensitive and nuanced work with Muslim communities.
Finally, an afterword by a scholar of Christianity explores the
conceptual parallels between the book's key themes and the
anthropology of world religions in a broader context. This volume
has key contemporary relevance: for example, its conclusions on the
fluidity of people's relations with Islam will provide an important
counterpoint to many commonly held assumptions about the
incontestability of Islam in the public sphere.
This book is an anthropological investigation into the different
forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves,
when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a
field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic
research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in
managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty
alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of
contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the
economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates
the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and
synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book
looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging
attentively, critically and productively with the
post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida,
three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in
contemporary philosophy.
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