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... of knowing what not to narrate in relation to the disavowed pasts of 1971 in Pakistan. It draws on long-term ethnographic research on the public memories and nationalist narratives of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war of 1971, along with discussions with various Pakistani scholars and students...

... the humanities has played an immense role in “freeing our imaginations” to understand and research queer sexualities. 2 Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana , however, indicates that most work on queer gender and sexuality is based on particular choices, such as relying...

...Aminata Cécile Mbaye [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Serena Owusua Dankwa's remarkable book Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana offers a refreshing perspective on the representation of same-sex...

...: the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and the series “Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation.” In both cases the primary value is generating dialogue between specialists from different backgrounds. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Michael Beard here...

... were amongst the first to be registered for demolition.  . . .  We did have an anexo (outbuilding), but it was only much later that we found out that this could also be registered as an existing house.  . . .  It was all very fast and people did not know about anything, they were innocent.” 33...

... of three different interlocutors with varying stakes in the chickens’ disappearance. In juxtaposing these three stories, the author argues that the recognition of and engagement with nonhumans in our field sites necessitates reflecting on the limits of what we (can) know, how we know, unknowability...

..., semiskilled, and unskilled labor shape the everyday work of building, yet these terms only partially map onto hierarchies of embodied capacities and know-how. At least two vectors are producing what I term a “problem-space” concerning skill. On one hand, long-standing patterns of informal learning by doing...

... with the Indian Ocean.” The authors take a concept that is in wide currency in the humanities and social sciences and then reimagine it creatively in the contexts that they study. In doing so, they decenter familiar ways of seeing and knowing, offering a new decolonial lens to make sense of the circularities...

...Asif Siddiqi Through newly accessible archival materials, this essay recovers a particular moment in the birth of the Indian space program when its principal architects sought to leverage US commitment to Indian development to create the technical know-how for an Indian television broadcasting...

... then presents a reading of another portion of Kalhaṇa's masterpiece: a key historical case study that contains an implicit, nuanced theory of historical decline with deep roots in the kāvya tradition. Here Kalhaṇa's poetic chronicle presents an elaborate, albeit implicit, reflection on the problem of knowing...

... strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities. © 2016...

.... More generally, texts like these formed part of the infrastructure through which circulation took place in the maritime marketplace. By thinking through these marketplace genres, we can gain a more textured sense of the processes of knowing, measuring, abstracting, and circulating that underpinned...

... intimacies (85–86). 4 As such, she depicts the Ghanaian town and city as a surprisingly queer space of opportunities and affordances “knowing women” know how to grab and amplify. This is very similar to how fioto men approach the city in Kinshasa or Kisangani: they too cultivate knowledges on how to bend...

... Grandfathers and Grandsons* M.A. Nuhman Our grandpa had an elephant a tusker. Do you know? If you don’t Take note, mister; for the world knows our grandpa had a very big tusker. He rode his tusker to the Atlantic shore across the Andulasian plain. For eight hundred years...

...- lemical work (and we’ll come back to the question Asad:  Oh, I see, which I’ve lost. I had a copy of it of polemics in a minute) and with denunciations of but I don’t know where it is now. anthropology...

... Duke University Press 2006 Exchange with Audience Leila Ahmed : Well, you’ve left me almost speechless, I did not know I had done all those things. It’s very rich and wonderful, what you have just said, and I am kind of amazed that I really do this. [Laughter] Ilan Stavans...

.... You were an urbanist in a way that I had never before encountered. The first book of yours I read was City Life from Jakarta to Dakar . The scope of it! The acute span of its perspective was so marvelous to me. Who is this guy, I wondered? Why is he living in Jakarta? How does he know all...

... focuses his attention on the recent arrest of Gandhi, some two months after his own indict- GANDHI ONE OF NO- CHARACTERS ment and arrest on charges of mail fraud, a charge on which he would ultimately be tried and found guilty in June Gandhi, as you know, is one of the noblest characters...

...Serena Owusua Dankwa [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 I am very grateful to Aminata Mbaye, Rachel Spronk, and Thomas Hendriks for their insightful and rich responses—and indeed extensions—to my book Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender...

... inspect their morality. Such a voyeuristic police State awareness of social inequality and oppression. The em- goes against all universally accepted norms of democ- phasis on technical training and know-how without an racy, justice, personal dignity and right to privacy. accompanying stress...