When:
Monday, March 11, 2019
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: 1810 Hinman Avenue, 104, 1810 Hinman Avenue , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Nancy Hickey
(847) 467-1507
Group: Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-Sponsor:
Anthropology Department
Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Anthropologist as Reader
My recent book, Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology (Columbia. 2018), offers an interdisciplinary account of a locally situated “formation” of Islamic legal texts, including both doctrinal works, such as law books, and also archival writings, from court transcripts to routine documents, such as contracts. I will survey the book’s ethnographic foundations, foregrounding personalities and research relations—the human circumstances for the emergence of key insights. The emphasis, however, will be on the appropriate methods for a new type of analytic reader: a humanistic social scientist
Co-sponsored by MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM