History and Anthropology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Dube
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Analytical Procedures ◽  
Writing Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. In discussing history and anthropology together, it is often acknowledged that the relationship between the two has been contradictory and contentious, but that their interplay has also been prescient and productive. At the same time, such considerations, turning on dissension and dialogue, are principally premised upon framing anthropology and history as already known, taken for granted disciplines. Here, each pre-figured enquiry is seen as characterized by its own discrete desires and distinct methods, concerning research and writing, analysis and description. Arguably, what is required is another approach to the subjects of history and anthropology, their tensions and intersections, their contentions and crossovers. Three matters assume salience. First, to juxtapose anthropology and history is to reconsider these enquiries, sieving them against their formidable disciplinary conceits. Second, this requires exploring the constitutive linkages of the two with empire and nation, time and space, race and reason as well as with wider transformations of the human sciences. These reveal curious connections as much as mutual makeovers, especially when mapped as careful genealogies and critical poetics of anthropological and historical knowledges. Third, and finally, at stake are bids that stay with and think through received configurations of tradition and temporality, culture and power, and hermeneutic and analytical procedures. These make possible the tracking of astute articulations, often recent, of historical consciousness and subaltern pasts, gender and sexuality, nation and state, and colony and modernity—based on the shared sensibilities of anthropology, history, and associated enquiries and perspectives.

Ethnographies of Water

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Toussaint
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Presence And Absence

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Water, in all its permanent, temporary, salt, and freshwater forms, is vital and life-sustaining to humans and other living species, as well as to landscapes. Ethnographies of water tell a multitude of stories, not only about water’s intrinsic value to life, but also how different societies conceptualize, sustain, and use it. Water as a cultural lens reveals how both the presence and absence of water is managed, as well as how it is believed to have originated and should be cared for. Practices such as the regular enactment of religious rituals, the development of irrigation, origin narratives, and the problem of drought all convey a complex of water-inspired stories. That water features as a subject for artworks, architecture, texts, and sculptures in a myriad of locations also reveals important descriptive and investigative foci, as do disputes about ownership and access when sources are scarce, demands are high, and floods disturb lives. Water’s relationship to other elements—air, wind, fire, cloud, and smoke—is also part of the depth and breadth embedded in ethnographies of water, constituting a richness of narratives, especially when explored from country to country and place to place, as new generations and circumstances across time and space converge.

Contemporary Qur'anic Studies in Iran and its Relationship with Qur'anic Studies in the West

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Morteza Karimi-Nia
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The West ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Status ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The status of tafsīr and Qur'anic studies in the Islamic Republic of Iran has changed significantly during recent decades. The essay provides an overview of the state of Qur'anic studies in Iran today, aiming to examine the extent of the impact of studies by Western scholars on Iranian academic circles during the last three decades and the relationship between them. As in most Islamic countries, the major bulk of academic activity in Iran in this field used to be undertaken by the traditional ʿulamāʾ; however, since the beginning of the twentieth century and the establishment of universities and other academic institutions in the Islamic world, there has been increasing diversity and development. After the Islamic Revolution, many gradual changes in the structure and approach of centres of religious learning and universities have occurred. Contemporary advancements in modern sciences and communications technologies have gradually brought the institutions engaged in the study of human sciences to confront the new context. As a result, the traditional Shīʿī centres of learning, which until 50 years ago devoted themselves exclusively to the study of Islamic law and jurisprudence, today pay attention to the teaching of foreign languages, Qur'anic sciences and exegesis, including Western studies about the Qur'an, to a certain extent, and recognise the importance of almost all of the human sciences of the West.

scholarly journals Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men’s Sex with Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2098078
Author(s):  
Max Stick ◽  
Tina Fetner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Oral Sex ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Feminist Identification ◽  
The Relationship

Men’s identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than non-feminists? In particular, do feminist men organize their sexual behavior in a way that prioritizes their partners’ sexual pleasure to a greater extent than non-feminists? Using representative survey data of Canadian adults, we examine the self-reported sexual behavior of heterosexual Canadian men. We find that self-identifying feminist men report having sex more recently and are more likely to report engaging in breast stimulation and performing oral sex on their partners than non-feminists. We discuss the implications of these findings on the sociological literature on gender and sexuality.

scholarly journals Hidden in the limelight: A feminist engagement with innovation studies

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110153
Author(s):  
Lara Pecis ◽  
Karin Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Space Race ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positively Charged ◽  
Blind Spots

Innovation is filled with aspirations for solutions to problems, and for laying the groundwork for new technological and social breakthroughs. When a concept is so positively charged, the hopes expressed may create blindness to potential shortcomings and deadlocks. To disclose innovation blind spots, we approach innovation from a feminist viewpoint. We see innovation as a context that changes historically, and as revolution, offering alternative imaginaries of the relationship between race, gender and innovation. Our theoretical framework combines bell hooks (capitalist patriarchy and intersectionality), Mazzucato (the entrepreneurial state and the changing context of innovation) and Fraser (redistributive justice) and contributes with an understanding of innovation from the margin by unveiling its political dimensions. Hidden Figures, the 2016 biographical drama that follows three Black women working at NASA during the space race, provides the empirical setting of the paper. Our analysis contributes to emerging intersectionality research in management and organisation studies (MOS) by revealing the subject positions and dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in innovation discourses, and by proposing a radical – and more inclusive – rethinking of innovation. With this article, we aim to push the margins to the centre and invite others to discover the terrain of the margin(alised). We suggest that our feminist framework is appropriate to study other organisational phenomena, over time and across contexts, to bring forward the plurality of women’s experiences at work and in organisations.

Famiglia, sessualitŕ, riproduzione: un puzzle da ricomporre

2009 ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Stefania Bernini
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
The Relationship

- Family, Sexuality, Reproduction: an Unsolved Puzzle discusses the relationship between family history, gender studies and the studies of sexualities. Its starting point is the consideration that, perhaps surprisingly, disciplines and research interests apparently close have struggled to find a common language and a fruitful cooperation. Moving from a perspective of family history, this article explores causes and consequences of this apparent difficulty in finding a common ground between scholars of family, gender and sexuality and the possibility of overcoming it.Keywords: Family, Sexuality, Reproduction, Gender studies, Historiography, History.Parole chiave: Famiglia, Sessualitŕ, Riproduzione, Studi di genere, Storiografia, Storia.

scholarly journals Sexuality, Feminism and Polish Cinema in Maria Kornatowska’s "Eros i film"

Panoptikum ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Radkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Film Critic

The text addresses the issue of feminist film criticism in Poland in the 1980s, represented by the book by Maria Kornatowska Eros i  film [Eros and Film, 1986]. In her analysis Kornatowska focused mostly on Polish cinema, examined through a feminist and psychoanalytic lens. As a film critic, she followed international cinematic offerings and the latest trends in film studies, which is why she decided to fill the gap in Polish writings on gender and sexuality in cinema, and share her knowledge and ideas on the relationship between Eros and Film. The purpose of the text on Kornatowska’s book was to present her individual interpretations of the approach of Polish and foreign filmmakers to the body, sexuality, gender identity, eroticism, the question of violence and death. Secondly, it was important to emphasize her skills and creative potential as a film critic who was able to use many diverse repositories of thought (including feminist theories, philosophy and anthropology) to create a multi-faceted lens, which she then uses to perform a subjective, critical analysis of selected films.

scholarly journals Gender and Crime Representations and Constructions of Deviant Femininity in Arab Cinema

1970 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Nada Addoum
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Film Criticism ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Within the practice of film criticism in the Arab world, the task of providing a comprehensive view of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors which contribute to particular cinematographic representations of class, gender, and sexuality has never been adequately tackled. This article, however, cannot and does not pretend to fill this gap. Instead, it seeks to benefit from the opportunity present in the topic of “female criminality in the Arab world” to start examining the forces and institutions of bias, the cinematic history of various cultural groups and the relationship between film and Arab1 culture's definitions of femininity and masculinity. 

Groundwork

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra D. Bhimull
Keyword(s):  
Air Travel ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Airline Travel ◽  
The Relationship

The first chapter establishes the overarching argument of the book. It explains why a sustained study of race in the advent of airborne mobility is important when trying to understand how airline travel helped to reshape the composition and experience of empire. Airline travel ushered in new ways to imagine, construct, and inhabit time and space. Yet, even as flight altered the conceptual and physical terrains of empire, this nascent technology remained entwined in the racialist ideas and practices that had grounded earlier imperial projects. Advocating for transdisciplinarity, the chapter also discusses how the disciplines of history and anthropology, as well as aviation and diaspora studies, have considered the relationship between race, airspace, and flight. It raises questions about the lack of attention given to the ways in which people and places in, as well as ideas about, the Caribbean helped to establish contemporary systems of global mobility. It explains why fragments, love, and the act of sensing are crucial for perceiving and understanding how air travel reshaped the geometry of empire and transformed networks of power.

Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon A. Suh
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
The Common ◽  
Racialized Other ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Meditative Practices

Chapter 15 seriously scrutinizes the relationship of Buddhism, “one of America’s racialized other religious darlings,” to Asian American studies, which has yet to consistently recognize religion as a legitimate site upon which to map race, gender, and sexuality. Suh argues that “the common Buddhist units of measure and authenticity” —for instance, Orientalized monks and Eastern meditation— “are uncritically reproduced in larger Asian American discourses that continue to overlook the non-devotional and non-meditative practices of Buddhist laity.” Suh’s essay counters those discourses by engendering a new way of seeing meditation politics as a means of ameliorating bodily alienation and internalized white supremacy.

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