Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition – Gabriele vom Bruck
Author: Gabriele vom Bruck
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Print Length: 348 pages
Genre: Islamic Studies / History, Islamic Studies / Theology, Ethics and Philosophy, Non-Fiction / History, Non-Fiction / Politics & Political Science, Non-Fiction / Social Science
Area: Yemen
Topic: Children & Childhood, Economy, Ethics & Morality, Family, History, Islam, Memory, Remembering and Forgetting, Politics & Power, Revolution, Similarities & Differences, Trauma
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.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction Locating Memory: The Dialectics of Incorporation and Differentiation
Part I Framings
1 The House of the Prophet
2 The Zaydi Elite during the Twentieth-Century Imamate
3 The Anatomy of Houses
Part II Growing to be ‘Alid
4 Snapshots of Childhood
5 Performing Kinship
Part III Self-Fashioning in the Idiom of Tradition
6 The Politics of Motherhood
7 Marriage in the Age of Revolution
8 “ ‘Ulama of a Different Kind”
9 The Moral Economy of Taste
Part IV Engaging Difference
10 Defining through Defaming
11 Memory, Trauma, Self-Identification
12 History through the Looking-Glass
Conclusion Frontiers of Memory
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Gabriele vom Bruck is a reader in anthropology with reference to the Middle East (emerita) and a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and held teaching posts at the LSE and the University of Edinburgh. She has conducted extensive field research in Yemen and published on elites, religious movements, gender, consumption, memory and history, and photography. Her major publications are Islam, Memory and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman’s Life Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
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