...William F. S. Miles Modernity dismisses millenarianism as atavistic. Yet millenarianism is remarkable for its propensity for survival and resurgence in culturally dissimilar parts of the world, at different stages of socioeconomic development. This comparative study focuses on the Karen along...

...Joseph Napolitano Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid Nuttall Sarah Johannesburg : Wits University Press , 2009 ix + 198 pp. , $34.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Postcolonial Enlightenment...

...Katerina Clark In the aftermath of the Great War the Ottoman and imperial Russian empires came to an end, and new geopolitical formations, what became the Soviet Union and Republican Turkey, emerged. In both countries a search ensued for new cultural identity and new cultural forms. At the same...

... of religious offense altered the economy of textual circulation in South Asia. Colonial law fueled a thriving extralegal legal culture that bureaucratized religious affect. It also reorganized the unbounded social imaginary associated with mass publicity. This allowed controversialists to exploit previously...

... lkad aavc nKazakhstan in Zataevich Aleksandr Nation: Cultural a Creating rltasomtos is,i 90tetrioyta became that territory sev- the underwent 1920 state in Kazakh First, the transformations. for eral name official the Stalin “Kirgiz.” than rather accu- “Kirghiz” more and the “Kazak” of rate...

... nCneprr Turkmenistan Contemporary in Making Policy Gender of Parameters Cultural avnv,wohswitnetnieyo h suso the of issues the on extensively written Bibi has to indebted who Palvanova, particularly am of I representatives organizations. and international issues, women’s representatives promoting...

...Hartmut Elsenhans The rise of new cultural identitarian movements is explained by changing politico-economic conditions at the global and the local level, which led to the decline of the secular elites. These movements are the result of the collapse of the state classes, which had been formed...

...Nadia von Maltzahn Von Maltzahn’s article looks at the relationship of Lebanese artists and cultural players to state institutions, in particular the ministry of culture. Why do cultural players in Lebanon call for the state’s involvement in cultural production, while in most countries...

...Dina Matar Matar’s essay addresses the PLO’s cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968–82. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO’s cultural output, it traces how the PLO...

... Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 Perspectives on the Dalit Cultural The movement does not endear itself to many established Movement literary figures, and translation is often genuinely difficult...

... life and politics by a specific generation of Iran's Left. The essay argues that because of its ideological adherence to Marxism, the militant Left of this era simply assumed its role as a secular political force, while riveted by cultural elements that in fact undermined secularism. Moreover, it shows...

...Carl W. Ernst © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Local Cultural Nationalism as Anti- Fundamentalist Strategy in Pakistan’ Carl W. Ernst National identity would seem to be an unavoidable lamists...

... . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays Edited by M. Holquist and translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press. Bhabha , Homi K. 1994 . The Location of Culture . London: Routledge. Bourdieu , Pierre . 1993 . The Field of Cultural Production . New York...

... , M. , and M. R. Levy ( 1977 ). Law and the Rise of Capitalism . New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977. SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. VI No. 1, Spring 1986. THE CULTURAL ARTICULATION OF PATRIARCHY: LEGAL SYSTEMS, ISLAM AND WOMEN Farida Shaheed...

...Janet L. Bauer Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2000 Afshar, Haleh. 1996 . Islam and Feminisms. An Iranian Case-Study . New York: St. Martin's Press. Amarasingham, Lorna. 1980 . “Making Friends in a New Culture: South Asian Women In Boston,Massachusetts...

...Yasmine Gooneratne Sourh Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 1 (Spring 1992). The English-Educated in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of Their Cultural Role Yasmine Gooneratne In 1947, the year before Sri Lanka (then still remedy, the dangers of a system of education which Ceylon...

... examines the educational battles that Reid demonstrates that the social, political, and cultural took place as Egypt struggled to attain and define its inde- history of Egypt in the twentieth century can be examined pendence. Egyptian academics sought a niche in a profession through the lens...

...Richard Terdiman Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Globalization and Cultural Studies: Conceptualization, Convergence, and Complication Richard Terdiman To many people, globalization means the ubiquitous impo- counts, from the voyages of Europeans...

...R. Cheran Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XII No. 1 (Spring 1992). Cultural Politics of Tamil Nationalism R. Cheran Social Scientists and Social Historians should be With this aspect in mind, the purpose of this paper forbidden from...

...Ahmad Agbaria Abstract The swift rise of a new guard of cultural thinkers from the margins of the Arab world during the 1970s amounts to one of the most striking yet forgotten episodes in postcolonial Arab thought. Coming primarily from Morocco, these intellectuals and activists rejected a long...