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Anthropology Colloquium: Brinkley Messick, Columbia University

Monday, March 11, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
1810 Hinman Avenue, 104, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

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

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Nancy Hickey   (847) 467-1507

nancy.hickey@northwestern.edu

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