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Ethnographies of Islam : Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices 3 by Dupret, B. , Pierret, T. , Pinto, P. , Spellman-Poots, K. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilization have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom. This book counters such discourses by showing the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and by promoting reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation, and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dupret, B. , Pierret, T. , Pinto, P. , Spellman-Poots, K.
- Publisher
- Aga Khan University-ISMC; Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748645510
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Islam, Sociology
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