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Title: Seeking the seeker : frameworks for understanding Islamic commodities
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2005
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: 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...

Title: Signposts along the road : monumental public writing in Egypt
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: 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...

Title: The political economy of religious commodities in Cairo
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: 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...

Title: Violence and the rhetoric of images
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
Description: This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...