Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam
dc.contributor.author | Hughes, GF | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-25T12:31:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-23 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-05-25T06:38:11Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Wary of the ‘denial of coevalness’ associated with earlier anthropology, anthropologists at the turn of the millennium increasingly emphasized how sharing not just space but also time is constitutive of the ethnographic encounter. However, drawing on online and offline fieldwork conducted in Jordan, I use the tensions between a blood feud and the holy month of Ramadan to illustrate how humans often refuse to inhabit each others’ histories and temporal schemes regardless of the presence of anthropologists. I argue that discomfort with acknowledging such refusals of coevalness has increasingly hobbled anthropological description, especially at a time when new communications technologies are re-shaping human experiences of sharing (and not sharing) space and time. I suggest that anthropologists would benefit from following many of the Jordanian Muslims I encountered in attending to how one does not ‘share time’ with various others – as well as the ways in which one does. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | British Academy | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | US National Endowment for the Humanities | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 23 May 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2023.2216709 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133232 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-4311-373X (Hughes, Geoffrey F) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Coevalness | en_GB |
dc.subject | ethnographic refusal | en_GB |
dc.subject | Jordan | en_GB |
dc.subject | primitivism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ramadan | en_GB |
dc.subject | temporality | en_GB |
dc.subject | tribalism | en_GB |
dc.title | Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-25T12:31:05Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0275-7206 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1477-2612 | |
dc.identifier.journal | History and Anthropology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-05-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-05-25T12:27:05Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-06-16T14:47:10Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-05-23 |
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