29651
Hauptseminar
Anthropology in Muslim contexts
Kai Kresse
Kommentar
Combining critical readings of selected core texts with reflections on specific ethnographies, this seminar covers fundamental themes aspects of the anthropology of Islam, as a sub-field of anthropology that has emerged in recent decades. This is done both with a view to the history of the discipline (through a critical discussion of early key texts, e.g. Geertz; Gellner; Gilsenan; el-Zein; Asad) and to more recent key contributions to contemporary debates (e.g. Abu-Lughod; Mahmood; Hirschkind; Marsden; Schielke; Hammoudi). It includes discussions of selected topics in recent anthropological research, looking at influential case studies and contested arguments in ethnographies dwelling on the relevance of e.g. gender; pilgrimage; knowledge; lived religion. Hereby, attention is paid to the conceptual approaches of authors in relation to their ethnographic work.
In addition, participants will get to have several sessions with invited speakers and guests, a) anthropological writers and researchers based in Berlin, discussing recent texts and ethnographic projects; b) we will also have speakers from parts of the Muslim world, particularly East Africa and the Swahili coast, so that we will be able to listen to, and engage with, accounts of lived experience within (different kinds of) Muslim lifeworlds.
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Zusätzliche Termine
Mi, 16.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 23.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 30.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 07.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 14.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 21.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 28.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 04.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 11.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 18.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 25.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 02.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 09.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00 Mi, 16.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00