Imagining identities : nation, culture and the past / Dale F. Eickelman ... [et al.].

By: Eickelman, Dale Floyd
Contributor(s): American Ethnological Society
Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Ethnological Society, 1992.Description: 643-805p. : ill., photos., tables ; 26cm.ISSN: 0094-0496
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Includes bibls. - Contents: Mass higher education and the religious imagination in contemporary Arab societies / Dale F. Eickelman; On scriptural essentialism and ritual variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco / John R. Bowen; The making of modern saints: manufactured charisma and the Abu-Hatseiras of Israel / Yoram Bilu, Eyal Ben-Ari; "The past is far and the future is far": power and performance among Zulu migrant workers / Veit Erlmann; Social conflict and political activism in the brazilian Amazon: a case study of Gurupá; Namechasers / Marco Jacquemet; The argument of images: historical representation in solidarity underground postage 1981-87 / Kristi S. Evans; National sentiment in the enactment and discourse of Swiss political ritual / Regina Bendix; On the uses of relativism: fact, conjecture and black and white histories at Colonial Williamsburg / Eric Gable, Richard Handler and Anna Lawson.

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