books by Talal Asad

books by Talal Asad

books:

Talal Asad

On Suicide Bombing
Talal Asad

Columbia Univ Pr, 2007

Anthropology in the Margins of the State (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Veena Das;Deborah Poole;Talal Asad;Adam Ashforth;Lawrence Cohen ;Mariane Ferme;Pradeep Jeganathan ;Diane Nelson ;Janet Roitman ;Victoria Sanford

SAR Press, 2004

Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter

Prometheus Books, 1995

The papers in this book analyze and document ways in which anthropological thinking and practice have been affected by British colonialism. They approach this topic from different points of view and at different levels. Each stands as an original contribution to an argument which is only just beginning.

From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

Duke University Press, 2002

Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume?s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a ...

On Suicide Bombing (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Talal Asad

Columbia University Press, 2007

the best yet on the topic
This book based on the Wellek lectures at U.C. Irvine is the best book on the topic of suicide bombings. As the other reviewer stated, it's approach brings "depth" to the topic, especially an understanding of Islam and the Arabic language, both of which tend to be ...

Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

Talal Asad

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Interesting
A fascinating book, in which the author argues that "religion" as a historical and political category was created in Europe, an interesting book.

Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Talal Asad

Stanford University Press, 2003

An erudite and praiseworthy albeit easily misunderstood attempt at uncloaking the Secular disguise.
There is more here than an Anthropology of the Secular and mostly because a full appreciation of the concept can never arise from a direct response to the question "what is the secular?". And so Asad continues throughout to offer examples and elements of alterations in ...

Honor. (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Talal Asad

American Oriental Society, 1996

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