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Arguing sainthood : modernity, psychoanalysis, and Islam /

"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 reinterpr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ewing, Katherine Pratt (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hegemony, consciousness, and the postcolonial subject
  • Sādhus and faqīrs : the Sufi pīr as a colonial construct
  • The pīr, the state, and the modern subject
  • Everyday arguments
  • A pīr's life story
  • Stories of desire : reclaiming the forgotten pīr
  • The Qalandar confronts the proper Muslim
  • The Qalandar as trope
  • The subject, desire, and recognition.