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Arguing Sainthood:

Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam
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Duke University Press, 1997 - Religion - 312 pages
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories of subjectivity, Ewing examines the production of identity in the context of a complex social field of conflicting ideologies and interests.
Ewing critiques Eurocentric cultural theorists and Orientalist discourse while also taking issue with expatriate postcolonial thinkers Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. She challenges the notion of a monolithic Islamic modernity in order to explore the lived realities of individuals, particularly those of Pakistani saints and their followers. By examining the continuities between current Sufi practices earlier popular practices in the Muslim world, Ewing identifies in the Sufi tradition a reflexive, critical consciousness that has usually been associated with the modern subject. Drawing on her training in clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis as well as her anthropological fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, Ewing argues for the value of Lacan in anthropology as she provides the basis for retheorizing postcolonial studies.
  

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Contents

The Sufi Pir as a Colonial Construct
41
The Plr the State and the Modern Subject
65
The Modern Subject amid Conflicting Ideologies
93
A PITS Life Story
128
Reclaiming the Forgotten Pir
163
The Qalandar Confronts the Proper Muslim
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The Qalandar as Trope
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The Subject Desire and Recognition
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Afterword
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References
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Index
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About the author (1997)

Katherine Pratt Ewing is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

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TitleArguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam
AuthorKatherine Prattewing
Editionillustrated
PublisherDuke University Press, 1997
ISBN082232024X, 9780822320241
Length312 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Middle East / General
Religion / Islam / General
Religion / Islam / Sufi
Social Science / Anthropology / General
  
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