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A Synthesis of Time - Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st ed.... A Synthesis of Time - Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Konstantinos Retsikas
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Magnus Marsden, Konstantinos Retsikas Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Magnus Marsden, Konstantinos Retsikas
R4,073 R3,425 Discovery Miles 34 250 Save R648 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 (Paperback): Konstantinos Retsikas Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java (Paperback)
Konstantinos Retsikas
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java (Hardcover, New): Konstantinos Retsikas Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java (Hardcover, New)
Konstantinos Retsikas
R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'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'.

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (Paperback, 2013 ed.): Magnus Marsden, Konstantinos Retsikas Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Magnus Marsden, Konstantinos Retsikas
R3,529 Discovery Miles 35 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

A Synthesis of Time - Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Paperback, 1st ed.... A Synthesis of Time - Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Konstantinos Retsikas
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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