1st Edition

Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary Knowledge

By Abdelmajid Hannoum Copyright 2023
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and outside of them. Abdelmajid Hannoum does this by dissecting, in a series of essays, a variety of narrative forms, interrogating modes of their constitution and production, the dynamics of their translatability, the politics of their use,... Read more

    Introduction

    1. Translation and the Imaginary

    2. Other Times, Other Places, Other Secularisms

    3. Two Narratives of the Anthropology of Islam

    4. Violence in Translation, or Fanon Otherwise

    5. Being (From) There: Anthropology and Nativism

    6. Paul Ricœur on Memory

    7. What is an Order of Time?

    8. Archiving Algeria: Power, Violence, and Secrecy

    9. Memory of the Surface: Colonial Forgetting in Post-Colonial France

    10. Cartoons, Secularism, and Inequality

    Biography

    Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA.