Essential reading for those interested in the comparative study of Islamic societies, Lambek's argument directly contributes to the main anthropological arguments of the day concerning the social and cultural basis of systems of knowledge and ethnographic strategies for depicting them.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 306.6/97/09694
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- 0802029604 9781442676534
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- GN661.M3
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- L222 1993eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxii, 468 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Tables and Figures 12
- Preface 14
- Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums 18
- Dramatis Personae 22
- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS 32
- 1 Knowledge and Hubris 34
- Knowledge, Power, and Morality 34
- Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge 39
- Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries 46
- Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice 50
- 2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice 62
- Cultural Diversity in Mayotte 63
- Historical Overview 71
- The Three Traditions 79
- Historical Practice 84
- Islam 'Versus' Possession? 93
- From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views 97
- 3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge 99
- The Social Distribution of Knowledge 99
- Portrait of the Villages 102
- The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge 115
- The Village Fundis 121
- The Economic Basis of the Experts 126
- PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE 132
- 4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path 134
- Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives 135
- The Social Production of Prayer 143
- Prayer and Reciprocity 147
- The Politics of Prayer 152
- The Economy of Justice 158
- 5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge 165
- The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation 168
- The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority 175
- Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge 180
- Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen 187
- The Value of Learning 190
- 6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power 193
- The Vulnerability of Authority 194
- Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures 199
- Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis 201
- Moral Intervention and Understanding 206
- Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation 210
- The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice 216
- Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority 220
- PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY 224
- 7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology 226
- Relations of (Re)production 227
- Divination as Calculation 240
- World and Body 243
- Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority 250
- Interdisciplinary Challenges 258
- A Cut in Time 264
- 8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery 268
- The Dark Side of Knowledge 268
- The Imagination of Evil 276
- A Dead End 280
- Sorcery in Practice 285
- Postscript: Unleashed Accusations 293
- 9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure 297
- Extractor and Client 298
- Extraction in Theory 301
- Tumbu in Practice 305
- Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines 311
- The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity 318
- Extraction as Performance 321
- Conviction and Good Faith 326
- PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS 334
- 10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice 336
- Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge 336
- Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency 351
- Public and Personal Aspects of Succession 363
- Emerging Voice 366
- 11 Tumbu and Mohedja: Excerpts from the Healers' Practice 369
- Sources of Knowledge and Agency 370
- Ethics 378
- Multiple Voices and Gender Politics 385
- Intimacy and Solidarity: Curing Halima 392
- Embodied Knowing, Polyvocality, and the Therapeutic Alliance 402
- Knowledge as Relationship 405
- CONCLUSION 408
- 12 Granaries, Turtles, and the Whole Damn Thing 410
- Collapsing Granaries, Emerging Stories 411
- Culture: Concurrent Perspectives 423
- Culture, Incommensurability, and Conversation 427
- Epilogue, 1992 438
- Notes 440
- Glossary 468
- A 468
- B 468
- C 468
- D 468
- F 468
- H 469
- I 469
- K 469
- L 469
- M 469
- N 470
- P 470
- R 470
- S 470
- T 470
- U 470
- V 470
- W 470
- Bibliography 472
- Index 484
- A 484
- B 484
- C 485
- D 486
- E 487
- F 488
- G 488
- H 489
- I 489
- J 490
- K 490
- L 491
- M 491
- N 493
- O 493
- P 493
- Q 494
- R 494
- S 494
- T 497
- V 498
- W 498
- Y 498
- Z 499
