Hirschkind The Ethical Soundscape

Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-51088-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cultures of History

Winner of the Sharon Stephens First Book Award from the American Ethnological Society and Honorable Mention, Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirschkind, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
1. Introduction
2. Islam, Nationalism, and Audition
3. The Ethics of Listening
4. Cassettes and Counterpublics
5. Rhetorics of the Da& ayn;iya
6. The Acoustics of Death
7. Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Hirschkind is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coeditor, with David Scott, of Powers of the Secular Modern and has published numerous articles on religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the Middle East.