Islam, memory, and morality in Yemen : ruling families in transition / Gabriele vom Bruck.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary anthropology of religionPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xix, 348 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1403966648
- 9781403966643
- 1403966656
- 9781403966650
- 953.3 22
- DS247.Y45 V66 2005
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 953.3 VOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A425847B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-331) and index.
Introduction: Locating Memory: The Politics of Incorporation and Differentiation -- Part I. Framings -- The House of the Prophet -- The Zaydi Elite during the 20th Century Imamate -- The Anatomy of Houses -- Part II. Growing to be `Alid -- Snapshots of Childhood -- Performing Kinship -- Part III. Self-Fashioning in the Idiom of Tradition -- The Politics of Motherhood -- Marriage in the Age of Revolution -- The Moral Economy of Taste -- Part IV. Engaging Difference -- Defining through Defaming -- Memory, Trauma, Self identification -- History through the Looking-Glass -- Conclusion: Frontiers of Memory -- Appendices.
"This book tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite that was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen, after enjoying exclusive rights to the leadership of the Imamate, the religiously sanctioned state for over a millennium. Rather than concentrating on recent political history, this book highlights the personal predicament of those targeted by the revolution. What is their sense of "past" and "self" in a transformed political setting where in some respects the mark of distinction has become a mark of disrepute? Focusing on the cultural politics of memory, the book explores how--in making sense of their current lives and formulating responses to adversity--members of the elite remember."--Publisher description.
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