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Seeking the seeker : frameworks for understanding Islamic commodities
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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2005
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
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Description
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Contemporary Muslim criticisms of the commodification of religion are similar in some ways to the sociology of culture formulated by members of the Frankfurt School of the mid-twentieth century, particularly Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as i...
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Signposts along the road : monumental public writing in Egypt
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
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Description
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Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public sig...
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The political economy of religious commodities in Cairo
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
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Description
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Anthropology’s rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from praye...