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The Ideal of Casteless Language in Pramoedya’s Arok Dedes
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 591–603.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Council and a Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Ideal of Casteless Language in
Pramoedya’s Arok Dedes
Annette Damayanti Lienau...
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Dispossessing Property: Notes from Monastic Struggle in Lebanon
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706967.
Published: 22 January 2025
... idealization of these relations as sectarianism, the belated juridical force of which instigates a temporal and spatial cleavage, an interior exteriority, marked by a temporal “prior” that is also a spatial margin (the “domestic” space of women and religion). The mode of monastic action, dispossession, teaches...
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When God Provides: Welfare, Orthodox Practice, and Precarity in Lebanon
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706975.
Published: 22 January 2025
... of differentiation and secular ideals of national unity. Focusing on an Eastern Orthodox community in the Middle East, the article is a critical intervention in the anthropology of Christianity. It underscores localized expressions of Christianity by highlighting the social life of theological concepts amid...
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Children of Cain in the Land of Error: A Central Asian Merchant's Treatise on Government and Society in Ming China
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 434–448.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... This and other developments in China, including construction of the Great Wall in the late fifteenth century, resonated with millenarian beliefs in the Islamic world. The Khatay'namah 's description of China evokes millenarian, utopian ideals but also demystifies China's prosperity, which it attributes...
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The Ottoman Legacy: Urban Geographies, National Imaginaries, and Global Discourses of Tolerance
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 183–195.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Amy Mills Turkey emerged from the ruins of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire to become a secular, ethnically Turkish, and culturally Sunni Muslim nation. While the Ottoman legacy refers to an ideal of multiethnic tolerance located in the distant past, and is deployed as a critique against a presumably...
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Four Daughters of Tököldösh: Kyrgyz Actresses Define Soviet Modernity
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 40–56.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and Darkul Kuiukova take us back to an era when Kyrgyz women first took charge of their lives in a public forum. These “four daughters of Tököldösh” established the modern conventions of Kyrgyz stage and film. They helped construct idealized models for Kyrgyz women and fashioned a new Kyrgyz identity...
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The Politics and Ideology of Urban Development in Iraq’s Oil City: Kirkuk, 1946–58
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2013
... worked for this foreign-owned enterprise, leading to labor organization and interventions by the company in order to promote capitalist ideals. Second, the fact that the oil industry had greater access to resources and materials than the Kirkuk municipality allowed the IPC to spearhead housing, water...
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A Door Ajar: National Borders and the Character of Islam in Pakistan
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 255–269.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in those early days, the “homeland for the Muslims of India” was conceived (ideally) in two guises: either as a container for the Muslims that lived or migrated there, or as a project for making Pakistanis. The Indian Islam of large sections of the existing population was not of a kind to be respected...
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Vindicating “True Occupation” for the Progress of Society: Technical and Agricultural Associations in Early Lagos Newspapers
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2018
... progress in a unique way. In analyzing how the Lagos press utilized agricultural and technical associations to formulate and advertise their ideas for the future of Lagos society, this article also argues that the idealized depictions of skilled artisans and farmers by the urban, educated African elites...
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The Power of Corruption
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 558–562.
Published: 01 December 2019
... ests that the phenomenon of corruption can only be made sense of when placed within the matrix of political and social power relations in the global South democracies. Corruptions appear not as distortions in an idealized democratic marketplace, but in the context of maneuvers of counter-democratic...
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Back to the Future Qasbah : Print and the Timescape of an Islamic Town in British India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 345–360.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., present, and future rather than only a reverence for an idealized past. The alterity of this timescape was tied to differences in local infrastructure and institutional power, enabling distinctive social and political statements in qasbahs, that in turn could empower distinctive political, religious...
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Ending India's Naga Conflict: Facts and Fictions in Postcolonial Sovereignty
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 434–443.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... It serves to provide the kind of protection ideally suited for economic transactions associated with the so-called informal sector economy in the region. There are affinities between this emergent order and the indirect rule regime of the British colonial era. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press...
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Alternative Kingdoms: Shrines and Sovereignty in Jaora
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 444–453.
Published: 01 December 2020
... communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the hybrid nature of Husain Tekri facilitated the development of a mutually beneficial exchange between members of Bombay's Khoja community...
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Beauty for Harmony: Moral Negotiations and Autonomous Acts in Diyarbakır, Turkey
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 180–192.
Published: 01 May 2020
... civil politics, radical democracy, and gender ideals, older militarized notions of the Kurdish self, body, and beauty were changing. In a context of heightened visibility within the movement, women active in the Kurdish movement responded by recrafting their femininities, using beautification practices...
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To Have and to Hold: Understanding Cultural and Biological Property in Turkey
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 18–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in Ankara. In the accounts of several Turkish and international critics, these two events were presented as kindred, reactionary maneuvers aimed at galvanizing nationalist fervor, and Turkish claims on biological and cultural property were pitted against universalist ideals of conservation. Drawing on long...
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“Then You Are a Man, My Son”: Kipling and the Zuma Rape Trial
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 263–274.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of interrogating specters of colonial patriarchy in South Africa's contemporary post–“rainbow nation” epoch. During the trial, Zuma invoked in his defense a certain masculine ideal of Zuluness, and the judge's invocation of Kipling similarly points to the ways in which nodes of masculinity and power...
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Televised Tears: Artifice and Ambivalence in Islamic Preaching
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 153–165.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Yasmin Moll Abstract The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity...
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“I Do Not Forgive!”: Hope and Refusal in Tunisia's Democratic Transition
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 205–221.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Ali dictatorship. Drawing on participant observation, media analysis, and activist interviews, the author shows how Manish Msamah debunks the ruse of consent at the heart of reconciliation, and in doing so maintains fidelity to the ideals of the 2011 Revolution. The campaign is revealed as an early...
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Aryans and the Brahminization of Theory: Identity Politics East and West, Past and Present
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 511–522.
Published: 01 December 2012
... position. Finally, Figueira examines how analogous notions regarding identity resurface in modern critical theories of ideal readers and spokespersonship. A comparative analysis of representations of the Aryan in India and in the West can shed light on how South Asia is constructed today in global academe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 2–7.
Published: 01 May 2015
... from the aspirations expressed. As grand utopian narratives fragment, Rajagopal asks, can attention to their forms of mediation clarify the different kinds of futures being imagined today? Given the idealism inherent in most utopian endeavors, can questions about media and mediation help improve...
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