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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Social Life of Prayer
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University of Toronto Press Exemplary Life
Book SynopsisBased on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an aspirational figure in her community. Myrna is regarded by her followers as an exemplary figure, a living saint, and the messages, apparitions, stigmata, and oil that have marked Myrna since 1982 have corroborated her status as chosen by God. Exemplary Life probes the power of examples, the modelling of sainthood around Myrna’s figure, and the broader context for Syrian Christians in the changing landscape of the Middle East. The book highlights the social use of examples such as the ones inhabited by Myrna’s devout followers and how they reveal the broader structures of illustration, evidence, and persuasion in social and cultural settings. Andreas Bandak argues that the role of the example should incite us to investigate which trains of thought set local worlds in motion. In doing so, Exemplary LiTable of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Introduction: Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria 1. Closer to Mary 2. Repeated Prayers 3. Exemplary Series 4. Life and Story 5. Signs and Evidence 6. Prophecies of Unity 7. Damascus Speaking Conclusion Epilogue References Index
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Taylor & Francis The Social Life of Prayer Anthropological Engagements with Christian Practice
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MD - Duke University Press Porous Becomings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Different Repetitions
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University of Toronto Press Exemplary Life
Book SynopsisBased on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an aspirational figure in her community. Myrna is regarded by her followers as an exemplary figure, a living saint, and the messages, apparitions, stigmata, and oil that have marked Myrna since 1982 have corroborated her status as chosen by God. Exemplary Life probes the power of examples, the modelling of sainthood around Myrna’s figure, and the broader context for Syrian Christians in the changing landscape of the Middle East. The book highlights the social use of examples such as the ones inhabited by Myrna’s devout followers and how they reveal the broader structures of illustration, evidence, and persuasion in social and cultural settings. Andreas Bandak argues that the role of the example should incite us to investigate which trains of thought set local worlds in motion. In doing so, Exemplary LiTable of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Introduction: Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria 1. Closer to Mary 2. Repeated Prayers 3. Exemplary Series 4. Life and Story 5. Signs and Evidence 6. Prophecies of Unity 7. Damascus Speaking Conclusion Epilogue References Index
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Taylor & Francis Qualitative Analysis in the Making
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Taylor & Francis Qualitative Analysis in the Making
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Taylor & Francis Different Repetitions Anthropological Engagements with Figures of Return Recurrence and Redundancy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Power of Example
Book SynopsisThe Power of Example is an interdisciplinary examination of the integral role that examples and exemplification play in anthropological theory and practice. Explores the evocative and persuasive power, both positive and negative, of exemplary examples' in social life Includes contributions from established and up-and-coming anthropologists, as well as leading scholars of religious and cultural studies Features an international array of case studies on exemplification from Left radical activists in Denmark to scientific metrological practice in Brazil Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: the power of example (Lars Højer and Andreas Bandak) Ritual, value, and example: on the perfection of cultural representations (Joel Robbins) The burden of being exemplary: national sentiments, awkward witnessing, and womanhood in occupied Palestine (Lotte Buch Segal) Exemplary series and Christian typology: modelling on sainthood in Damascus (Andreas Bandak) Double standards: examples and exceptions in scientific metrological practices in Brazil (Antonia Walford) Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology (Stine Krøijer) The failed image and the possessed: examples of invisibility in visual anthropology and Islam (Christian Suhr) Paradoxical paradigms: moral reasoning, inspiration, and problems of knowing among Orthodox Christian monastics (Alice Forbess) How to do things with examples: Sufis, dreams, and anthropology (Amira Mittermaier) Anthropological tropes and historical tricksters: pilgrimage as an ‘example’ of persuasion (Simon Coleman) Of figures and types: brokering knowledge and migration in Indonesia and beyond (Johan Lindquist) Index
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