Popular Religious Rituals and Folkloric Beliefs among Pastoral Nomads of the
Middle East and Central Eurasia
This is a call for papers for a panel on “Popular Religious Rituals and
Folkloric Beliefs among Pastoral Nomads of the Middle East and Central
Eurasia” which will be held during the Fourth World Congress for Middle East
Studies (WOCMES), 18th-22nd August 2014 in Ankara (Turkey).
http://www.wocmes2014.org/
Among the anthropological studies of Pastoral Nomads of the Middle East and
Central Eurasia, popular religious rituals and folkloric beliefs are the
most neglected topics (Peters 2008). As Tapper (2008) states: “In the
ethnography of Middle Eastern societies, settled or nomadic, tribal or
peasant, perhaps the most neglected area of life is the whole realm of
religion, ritual, symbolism and ideology, particularly at the level of local
community. Many ethnographers of nomads, for example Cunnison (1966); Asad
(1970); Bates (1973); Ahmad (1973); Irons (1975); Glatzer (1977), pursuing
their main interest in economics, kinship, social structure and politics are
content to record that their subjects are Muslims and to note ways in which
their customs differ from Islamic prescriptions.”
In this regard we are interested in receiving proposals which present new
and unpublished researches on any topics related to the anthropological
studies of popular religious rituals and folkloric beliefs among Pastoral
Nomads of the Middle East and Central Eurasia.
Please send the title of your proposal, your discipline, a 500-word
abstract and your full academic affiliation including your e-mail address
as an attached file (Office Word) by 15th Jan. 2014 to:
Dr.P. Khosronejad
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St. Andrews
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This panel is organised on behalf of the Network “Anthropology of the Middle
East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China)” which
is part of “European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA.”
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml
References:
- Peters, Emrys. 2008. ‘The paucity of ritual among Middle Eastern
pastoralists’. In Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus
(eds.) A. Ahmad and D. M. Hart, pp. 187–220. London and New York: Routledge.
- Tapper Richad. 2008. ‘Holier than thou: Islam in three tribal societies’.
In Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, p. 247. London
and New York: Routledge.
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