Shobna Nijhawan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198074076
- eISBN:
- 9780199080922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198074076.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter suggests that Hindi women’s periodicals are an example of how questions of representation and transformation were generated through a collective effort of publishing in the Hindi ...
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This chapter suggests that Hindi women’s periodicals are an example of how questions of representation and transformation were generated through a collective effort of publishing in the Hindi literary world of the early twentieth century. This book has demonstrated that literary tastes, styles, and the creative exploration of different literary genres were constitutive of the periodicals, notwithstanding limitations in literary scope, if compared with mainstream Hindi literary publications. The editors, readers, and writers of periodicals actively engaged with an expanding body of fictional writing by experimenting with what the women’s periodical as a genre had to offer. Moreover, they played an important role in community formation. With the advent of representations of women’s activism on the World Wide Web, new forms of dissemination into a virtual world have emerged. Of course such interaction poses a whole new set of questions concerning women’s social and political mobilization.Less
This chapter suggests that Hindi women’s periodicals are an example of how questions of representation and transformation were generated through a collective effort of publishing in the Hindi literary world of the early twentieth century. This book has demonstrated that literary tastes, styles, and the creative exploration of different literary genres were constitutive of the periodicals, notwithstanding limitations in literary scope, if compared with mainstream Hindi literary publications. The editors, readers, and writers of periodicals actively engaged with an expanding body of fictional writing by experimenting with what the women’s periodical as a genre had to offer. Moreover, they played an important role in community formation. With the advent of representations of women’s activism on the World Wide Web, new forms of dissemination into a virtual world have emerged. Of course such interaction poses a whole new set of questions concerning women’s social and political mobilization.
Marcel Fafchamps
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199241019
- eISBN:
- 9780191601217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199241015.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, South and East Asia
This chapter examines the role of business networks in market development and community formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is shown that for firms above a minimum size, relational contracting is the ...
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This chapter examines the role of business networks in market development and community formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is shown that for firms above a minimum size, relational contracting is the rule in markets for agricultural products, and manufacturing inputs and outputs. The important roles of relationships in facilitating market exchange are documented. The role of community affiliation in the membership of business networks is then examined. It is argued that entry into existing networks is biased, and that referral by family and friends is the most likely cause of ethnic concetration.Less
This chapter examines the role of business networks in market development and community formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is shown that for firms above a minimum size, relational contracting is the rule in markets for agricultural products, and manufacturing inputs and outputs. The important roles of relationships in facilitating market exchange are documented. The role of community affiliation in the membership of business networks is then examined. It is argued that entry into existing networks is biased, and that referral by family and friends is the most likely cause of ethnic concetration.
Walter D. Mignolo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691156095
- eISBN:
- 9781400845064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691156095.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the implications of national ideologies in the domain of languages and literatures intermixed with the colonial difference. It looks at the Haitian Revolution, wherein language ...
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This chapter explores the implications of national ideologies in the domain of languages and literatures intermixed with the colonial difference. It looks at the Haitian Revolution, wherein language was intrinsically related to community formation and to geopolitical configurations. Indeed, the Haitian Revolution is crucial for envisioning a new scenario of geopolitical configurations and for understanding the function of languages for political interventions and for building communities. “An other tongue” is the necessary condition for “an other thinking” and for the possibility of moving beyond the defense of national languages and national ideologies—both of which have been operating in complicity with imperial powers and imperial conflicts.Less
This chapter explores the implications of national ideologies in the domain of languages and literatures intermixed with the colonial difference. It looks at the Haitian Revolution, wherein language was intrinsically related to community formation and to geopolitical configurations. Indeed, the Haitian Revolution is crucial for envisioning a new scenario of geopolitical configurations and for understanding the function of languages for political interventions and for building communities. “An other tongue” is the necessary condition for “an other thinking” and for the possibility of moving beyond the defense of national languages and national ideologies—both of which have been operating in complicity with imperial powers and imperial conflicts.
Ousmane Oumar Kane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199732302
- eISBN:
- 9780199894611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732302.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Islam
This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ ...
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This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ Little Africa”; the enclave “Fuuta Town” in Brooklyn, which comprises a majority of Haal Pulaar, predominantly from Senegal who are living with co-ethnics from Mauritania, Mali, and Guinea; and the Bronx, where a Senegalese community is now established.Less
This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ Little Africa”; the enclave “Fuuta Town” in Brooklyn, which comprises a majority of Haal Pulaar, predominantly from Senegal who are living with co-ethnics from Mauritania, Mali, and Guinea; and the Bronx, where a Senegalese community is now established.
Eiichiro Azuma
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195159400
- eISBN:
- 9780199788545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159400.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter deals with the impact of American racism on the Issei, which contributed to the development of a distinct racial identity among them in relation to other borderland residents. This ...
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This chapter deals with the impact of American racism on the Issei, which contributed to the development of a distinct racial identity among them in relation to other borderland residents. This process occurred at the level of their daily struggle as a racial(ized) minority — self-consciously identified as “the Japanese in America [zaibei doho]” — on the basis of shared interests in and concerns with power relations in the American West. Examining the critical linkages between white exclusionist politics and immigrant counterstruggles, the chapter explores the grassroots level of community formation, which coincided with the partial consolidation of immigrant leadership during the first two decades of the twentieth century.Less
This chapter deals with the impact of American racism on the Issei, which contributed to the development of a distinct racial identity among them in relation to other borderland residents. This process occurred at the level of their daily struggle as a racial(ized) minority — self-consciously identified as “the Japanese in America [zaibei doho]” — on the basis of shared interests in and concerns with power relations in the American West. Examining the critical linkages between white exclusionist politics and immigrant counterstruggles, the chapter explores the grassroots level of community formation, which coincided with the partial consolidation of immigrant leadership during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Benjamin Barna
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061559
- eISBN:
- 9780813051468
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061559.003.0005
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
During the nineteenth century a distinctive Hawaiian ranching community of varied (and often mixed) ethnic and national heritage developed as the livestock industry responded to increasingly Western ...
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During the nineteenth century a distinctive Hawaiian ranching community of varied (and often mixed) ethnic and national heritage developed as the livestock industry responded to increasingly Western business practices. Tensions between family connections (ʻohana) and capitalist relations of production (business) structured the interactions between immigrant labor and established members of the ranching community. In chapter 5, Barna discusses continuity and change in Hawaiian ranching culture visible at ranching stations on the Island of Hawaiʻi, particularly examining multicultural households within the context of community and household formation. He argues for the role of mixed, working households of ranching stations in overcoming ethnic and cultural difference among ranch workers.Less
During the nineteenth century a distinctive Hawaiian ranching community of varied (and often mixed) ethnic and national heritage developed as the livestock industry responded to increasingly Western business practices. Tensions between family connections (ʻohana) and capitalist relations of production (business) structured the interactions between immigrant labor and established members of the ranching community. In chapter 5, Barna discusses continuity and change in Hawaiian ranching culture visible at ranching stations on the Island of Hawaiʻi, particularly examining multicultural households within the context of community and household formation. He argues for the role of mixed, working households of ranching stations in overcoming ethnic and cultural difference among ranch workers.
Jack Tannous
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691179094
- eISBN:
- 9780691184166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691179094.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter looks at the most powerful tool for community formation that Christian leaders had at their disposal: the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist. The sacraments united the simple and the ...
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This chapter looks at the most powerful tool for community formation that Christian leaders had at their disposal: the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist. The sacraments united the simple and the learned alike. In the world of simple believers, the Eucharist was much more than a mystery one took at church, and baptism was much more than a rite of Christian initiation. Seeing the enormous power ascribed to these things and others provides a better understanding of why they could help produce the sort of confessional indifference among the simple that so exercised church leaders like Jacob of Edessa. Moreover, considering the extra-ecclesial life of the sacraments will help illustrate why controlling them might prove fundamental to forming a communal vessel that did not have leaks and why controlling them was ultimately more powerful than any dialectical argument.Less
This chapter looks at the most powerful tool for community formation that Christian leaders had at their disposal: the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist. The sacraments united the simple and the learned alike. In the world of simple believers, the Eucharist was much more than a mystery one took at church, and baptism was much more than a rite of Christian initiation. Seeing the enormous power ascribed to these things and others provides a better understanding of why they could help produce the sort of confessional indifference among the simple that so exercised church leaders like Jacob of Edessa. Moreover, considering the extra-ecclesial life of the sacraments will help illustrate why controlling them might prove fundamental to forming a communal vessel that did not have leaks and why controlling them was ultimately more powerful than any dialectical argument.
Tamara Bhalla
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040481
- eISBN:
- 9780252098925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040481.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
This chapter examines how the NetSAP book club's practices of reading expose the various inclusions and exclusions of South Asian American identity and community formation. It looks at how NetSAP ...
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This chapter examines how the NetSAP book club's practices of reading expose the various inclusions and exclusions of South Asian American identity and community formation. It looks at how NetSAP book club participants forge a conflicted and ambivalent sense of South Asian American community in the formation of the book club culture itself. When readers use the organizational structures and regulations of the book club to project South Asian heterogeneity, they counter hegemonic constructions of South Asian identity in literature as primarily Indian, privileged, and male. In contrast, when they discuss the parameters of South Asian identity in literature within the coethnic space of the book club, the endogamous process of community formation often flattens South Asian heterogeneity.Less
This chapter examines how the NetSAP book club's practices of reading expose the various inclusions and exclusions of South Asian American identity and community formation. It looks at how NetSAP book club participants forge a conflicted and ambivalent sense of South Asian American community in the formation of the book club culture itself. When readers use the organizational structures and regulations of the book club to project South Asian heterogeneity, they counter hegemonic constructions of South Asian identity in literature as primarily Indian, privileged, and male. In contrast, when they discuss the parameters of South Asian identity in literature within the coethnic space of the book club, the endogamous process of community formation often flattens South Asian heterogeneity.
Leslie Dossey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520254398
- eISBN:
- 9780520947771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520254398.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, African History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter describes the diffusion of bishops, who were ordained to the major cities in the third century, and by the fourth and fifth centuries presided over estates and villages in Byzacena and ...
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This chapter describes the diffusion of bishops, who were ordained to the major cities in the third century, and by the fourth and fifth centuries presided over estates and villages in Byzacena and Numidia. Local communities sought them, and because of the competition between Donatists and Catholics and a peculiar way of choosing primates, the North African churches obliged. The result was a new sort of leadership, common to city and country. These rural bishops provided an impetus for community formation, a way for small estates to come together under a common leader and even take a common name, counteracting the most damaging aspect of Roman domination—the scattering of rural populations onto separate estates.Less
This chapter describes the diffusion of bishops, who were ordained to the major cities in the third century, and by the fourth and fifth centuries presided over estates and villages in Byzacena and Numidia. Local communities sought them, and because of the competition between Donatists and Catholics and a peculiar way of choosing primates, the North African churches obliged. The result was a new sort of leadership, common to city and country. These rural bishops provided an impetus for community formation, a way for small estates to come together under a common leader and even take a common name, counteracting the most damaging aspect of Roman domination—the scattering of rural populations onto separate estates.
Tamara Bhalla
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040481
- eISBN:
- 9780252098925
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040481.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral ...
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Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation—and expresses of a sense of belonging—within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. This book blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. The book's investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace to social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout the book questions how its subjects' circumstances, desires, and shared race and class, limit the values they ascribe to reading. It also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, relationship with ideals of cultural authenticity.Less
Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation—and expresses of a sense of belonging—within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. This book blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. The book's investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace to social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout the book questions how its subjects' circumstances, desires, and shared race and class, limit the values they ascribe to reading. It also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, relationship with ideals of cultural authenticity.
Gregg Lambert
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474413909
- eISBN:
- 9781474422352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413909.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This statement returns to the writings of Jean Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben on the theme of community in relation to the contemporary ...
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This statement returns to the writings of Jean Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben on the theme of community in relation to the contemporary political conservatism around immigrants in Europe and the United States.Less
This statement returns to the writings of Jean Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben on the theme of community in relation to the contemporary political conservatism around immigrants in Europe and the United States.
Samuel K. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479859405
- eISBN:
- 9781479876426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859405.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter documents how bands and their audiences engage in a process of community formation around music. Musical community is defined here as existing at the intersection of local and mass ...
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This chapter documents how bands and their audiences engage in a process of community formation around music. Musical community is defined here as existing at the intersection of local and mass consumption, often serving as a point of mediation between locally produced, “grassroots” expressions of music and nationally and globally popular mass expressions of music. Working together to create music, this community establishes their political agency through negotiations of genre, style, and outlook, and through performance of music. The Latin music scene in Charlotte consists of the Eastside, Intown, and Uptown districts, each loosely corresponding to a geographic area of the city. Band-made communities within these districts highlight class divisions and tensions around race and ethnicity within the Latino community and between Latinos and non-Latinos.Less
This chapter documents how bands and their audiences engage in a process of community formation around music. Musical community is defined here as existing at the intersection of local and mass consumption, often serving as a point of mediation between locally produced, “grassroots” expressions of music and nationally and globally popular mass expressions of music. Working together to create music, this community establishes their political agency through negotiations of genre, style, and outlook, and through performance of music. The Latin music scene in Charlotte consists of the Eastside, Intown, and Uptown districts, each loosely corresponding to a geographic area of the city. Band-made communities within these districts highlight class divisions and tensions around race and ethnicity within the Latino community and between Latinos and non-Latinos.
Claire Taylor and Kostas Vlassopoulos
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198726494
- eISBN:
- 9780191793301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726494.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter argues that the study of ancient Greek history needs to move away from the ‘citizen club’ polis model to emphasize the diversity of communities within the ancient Greek world, the ...
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This chapter argues that the study of ancient Greek history needs to move away from the ‘citizen club’ polis model to emphasize the diversity of communities within the ancient Greek world, the networks of relationships formed within and between them, and the processes that created, modified, and dissolved them. After reviewing the impact of structuralist and formalist models of the polis, Taylor and Vlassopoulos examine how two distinct conceptual approaches, that of network studies and that of community formation, have been taken up by ancient historians. They argue that ‘network thinking’ allows for a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can benefit the study of ancient Greek history. In doing so they outline a new agenda for approaching the ancient Greek world: one less shaped by the polis, but instead focused on the networks of relationships created and disbanded between people of different status, wealth, identity, and connectivity.Less
This chapter argues that the study of ancient Greek history needs to move away from the ‘citizen club’ polis model to emphasize the diversity of communities within the ancient Greek world, the networks of relationships formed within and between them, and the processes that created, modified, and dissolved them. After reviewing the impact of structuralist and formalist models of the polis, Taylor and Vlassopoulos examine how two distinct conceptual approaches, that of network studies and that of community formation, have been taken up by ancient historians. They argue that ‘network thinking’ allows for a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can benefit the study of ancient Greek history. In doing so they outline a new agenda for approaching the ancient Greek world: one less shaped by the polis, but instead focused on the networks of relationships created and disbanded between people of different status, wealth, identity, and connectivity.
Eiichiro Azuma
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824847586
- eISBN:
- 9780824873066
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824847586.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This study examines how orthodox narratives of Japanese American experience in popular and academic discourse have contributed to the skewed way in which the membership of Japanese America has been ...
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This study examines how orthodox narratives of Japanese American experience in popular and academic discourse have contributed to the skewed way in which the membership of Japanese America has been defined and its boundaries cemented since the 1910s. That process entails glorification and demonization of certain types of Japanese Americans as well as exclusion of other individuals from the race history. Based on the accumulated effects of such discursive contrivances, the established notions of community, identity, history, and indeed race in contemporary Japanese America have affirmed and even encouraged the marginalization of anomalous historical agents—like Kibei—while rendering others—like postwar immigrants—as perpetual co-ethnic foreigners.Less
This study examines how orthodox narratives of Japanese American experience in popular and academic discourse have contributed to the skewed way in which the membership of Japanese America has been defined and its boundaries cemented since the 1910s. That process entails glorification and demonization of certain types of Japanese Americans as well as exclusion of other individuals from the race history. Based on the accumulated effects of such discursive contrivances, the established notions of community, identity, history, and indeed race in contemporary Japanese America have affirmed and even encouraged the marginalization of anomalous historical agents—like Kibei—while rendering others—like postwar immigrants—as perpetual co-ethnic foreigners.
Jemima Pierre
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226923024
- eISBN:
- 9780226923048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226923048.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within which Ghanaian urban communities and identities are constituted. It explains the significance of establishing the fact of the occurrence of racialization in purportedly unusual or unsuspecting places. It also provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within which Ghanaian urban communities and identities are constituted. It explains the significance of establishing the fact of the occurrence of racialization in purportedly unusual or unsuspecting places. It also provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.
Torsten Tschacher
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198092063
- eISBN:
- 9780199082872
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198092063.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
The southernmost regions of India present an almost paradoxical situation as far as Muslims are concerned. While the impact of Islam and Muslims on the region is often considered insignificant, ...
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The southernmost regions of India present an almost paradoxical situation as far as Muslims are concerned. While the impact of Islam and Muslims on the region is often considered insignificant, Muslim societies in south India exhibit historical, economic, religious, and linguistic diversity far beyond that encountered in regions associated more centrally with Islam in South Asia such as the Punjab and the Gangetic Plains or Bengal. From the colonial period onwards, administrators, historians, and anthropologists have tried to come to terms with this complexity by reducing south Indian Muslims to a set of bounded and demarcated ‘communities’ supposedly sharing common language, origins, economic pursuits, and religious particularities. This chapter challenges and contextualizes established images of Muslim societies in south India. It endeavours to understand Muslim diversity in the region as a dynamic and complex interplay of diverse processes.Less
The southernmost regions of India present an almost paradoxical situation as far as Muslims are concerned. While the impact of Islam and Muslims on the region is often considered insignificant, Muslim societies in south India exhibit historical, economic, religious, and linguistic diversity far beyond that encountered in regions associated more centrally with Islam in South Asia such as the Punjab and the Gangetic Plains or Bengal. From the colonial period onwards, administrators, historians, and anthropologists have tried to come to terms with this complexity by reducing south Indian Muslims to a set of bounded and demarcated ‘communities’ supposedly sharing common language, origins, economic pursuits, and religious particularities. This chapter challenges and contextualizes established images of Muslim societies in south India. It endeavours to understand Muslim diversity in the region as a dynamic and complex interplay of diverse processes.
Andrew M. Smith II
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199861101
- eISBN:
- 9780199332717
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199861101.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
In social, economic, and cultural terms, the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire was vastly complex, and it has fueled considerable debate among scholars concerning the nature of the interactions ...
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In social, economic, and cultural terms, the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire was vastly complex, and it has fueled considerable debate among scholars concerning the nature of the interactions between Romans and natives in the Near East. Notions of imperialism, specifically “cultural” imperialism, frame much of the debate. Through a detailed analysis of Palmyrene identity and community formation, this book presents a social and political history of Roman Palmyra, the oasis city situated deep in the Syrian Desert midway between Damascus and the Euphrates river. This city-state is unique in the ancient world, since it began as a humble community, probably no more than an isolated village, and grew—due in part to its role in the caravan trade—into an economically powerful, cosmopolitan urban center of Graeco-Roman character that operated outside of Roman rule, yet under Roman patronage. The book therefore focuses on two aspects of Palmyrene civilization during the first three centuries of the Common Era: the emergence and subsequent development of Palmyra as a commercial and political center in the desert frontier between Rome and Parthia (and later Persia), and the “making” of Palmyrenes. This study is thus concerned with the creation, structure, and maintenance of Palmyrene identity and that of Palmyra as an urban community in a volatile frontier zone. The history of Palmyra’s communal development would be wholly obscure were it not for the archaeological and epigraphic materials that testify to Palmyrene achievements and prosperity at home and abroad. These, complemented by the literary evidence, also provide insight into the relatively obscure historical process of sedentarization and of the relationships between pastoral and sedentary communities in the Roman Near East.Less
In social, economic, and cultural terms, the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire was vastly complex, and it has fueled considerable debate among scholars concerning the nature of the interactions between Romans and natives in the Near East. Notions of imperialism, specifically “cultural” imperialism, frame much of the debate. Through a detailed analysis of Palmyrene identity and community formation, this book presents a social and political history of Roman Palmyra, the oasis city situated deep in the Syrian Desert midway between Damascus and the Euphrates river. This city-state is unique in the ancient world, since it began as a humble community, probably no more than an isolated village, and grew—due in part to its role in the caravan trade—into an economically powerful, cosmopolitan urban center of Graeco-Roman character that operated outside of Roman rule, yet under Roman patronage. The book therefore focuses on two aspects of Palmyrene civilization during the first three centuries of the Common Era: the emergence and subsequent development of Palmyra as a commercial and political center in the desert frontier between Rome and Parthia (and later Persia), and the “making” of Palmyrenes. This study is thus concerned with the creation, structure, and maintenance of Palmyrene identity and that of Palmyra as an urban community in a volatile frontier zone. The history of Palmyra’s communal development would be wholly obscure were it not for the archaeological and epigraphic materials that testify to Palmyrene achievements and prosperity at home and abroad. These, complemented by the literary evidence, also provide insight into the relatively obscure historical process of sedentarization and of the relationships between pastoral and sedentary communities in the Roman Near East.
Tamara Bhalla
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040481
- eISBN:
- 9780252098925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040481.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
This concluding chapter explains how through practices of reading and other everyday cultural activities, South Asian Americans advance their own claims to authentic ethnic identity. They use these ...
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This concluding chapter explains how through practices of reading and other everyday cultural activities, South Asian Americans advance their own claims to authentic ethnic identity. They use these practices as a form of gatekeeping, as a means of regulating the parameters of South Asian American identity, and also as a way of expanding community and constructing new forms of it. As several scholars have maintained, ambivalence has been the primary affective response to this complex process of identity and community formation. The chapter also illustrates a scholarly conversation that is already charting how South Asians in the United States use everyday cultural practices—such as eating ethnic cuisine, viewing films, watching television, attending art exhibits, and consuming fashion—to think beyond ambivalence about representational forms.Less
This concluding chapter explains how through practices of reading and other everyday cultural activities, South Asian Americans advance their own claims to authentic ethnic identity. They use these practices as a form of gatekeeping, as a means of regulating the parameters of South Asian American identity, and also as a way of expanding community and constructing new forms of it. As several scholars have maintained, ambivalence has been the primary affective response to this complex process of identity and community formation. The chapter also illustrates a scholarly conversation that is already charting how South Asians in the United States use everyday cultural practices—such as eating ethnic cuisine, viewing films, watching television, attending art exhibits, and consuming fashion—to think beyond ambivalence about representational forms.
Marne L. Campbell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469629278
- eISBN:
- 9781469629292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629278.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Chapter 2 focuses primarily on African Americans with some comparisons to other racialized groups. It lays the foundation for understanding the collective black experience from 1850 to 1870. It ...
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Chapter 2 focuses primarily on African Americans with some comparisons to other racialized groups. It lays the foundation for understanding the collective black experience from 1850 to 1870. It considers the racial climate and social hierarchy, particularly, the ways in which black Angelenos established a community within the larger society. By examining the lives of the first families in the city, this chapter shows how people connected with one another in order to secure access to education and economic opportunity.Less
Chapter 2 focuses primarily on African Americans with some comparisons to other racialized groups. It lays the foundation for understanding the collective black experience from 1850 to 1870. It considers the racial climate and social hierarchy, particularly, the ways in which black Angelenos established a community within the larger society. By examining the lives of the first families in the city, this chapter shows how people connected with one another in order to secure access to education and economic opportunity.
Judith H. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190212216
- eISBN:
- 9780190212230
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190212216.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
Although by no means offering a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book considers a wide range of literary genres and practices across the diverse population of Judeans throughout the ...
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Although by no means offering a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book considers a wide range of literary genres and practices across the diverse population of Judeans throughout the region. The conclusion draws out some of the implications for understanding the fluid nature of scriptures in the Hellenistic-Roman era. The search for the “original text” of the Bible is a vain one; rather, scriptures were formed through a traditioning process that involved sacralization through the entwinement of prayer practices and textual interpretation. These texts were mediated by learned teachers and leaders in textual communities.Less
Although by no means offering a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book considers a wide range of literary genres and practices across the diverse population of Judeans throughout the region. The conclusion draws out some of the implications for understanding the fluid nature of scriptures in the Hellenistic-Roman era. The search for the “original text” of the Bible is a vain one; rather, scriptures were formed through a traditioning process that involved sacralization through the entwinement of prayer practices and textual interpretation. These texts were mediated by learned teachers and leaders in textual communities.
