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Title
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Islam and the politics of enchantment
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Secularism, Education
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Description
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The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counterclaims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programs for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing t...
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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 hexis of interpretation : Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Ritual, Education
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Description
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This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a ...
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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...
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Title
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Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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1999
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Secularism
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Description
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In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...
