| #1673157 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 1997-10-17 | 1997-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.82 x6.00l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great book|By Anthro-dr|Excellent book. Well written and brilliantly researched||
“Arguing Sainthood can and should be used in courses on modernity, postcolonialism, the Middle East, South Asia, and in other courses—cultural studies, religion—where Lacanian ideas are not unfamiliar.”—Michael M. J. F
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories of subjectivity, Ewing examines the production of identity in the context of a complex social field of conflicting ideologies and interests. Ewing critiqu...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam | Katherine Pratt Ewing. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
