ISSN:
0094-0496
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
American ethnologist : a journal of the American Ethnological Society
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publishing
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 43, No. 3 (2016), p. 488-499
DDC:
390
Abstract:
As young women in a Moroccan emigrant town search for suitable husbands, they frame seemingly irreverent practices such as using makeup and premarital romances as ways to precipitate their unknown conjugal destinies. This complex “labor of hope” flows from the Islamic precept of predestination, which, far from being a fatalistic backdrop to social life, compels people to act in the human world in view of a future that has already been divinely determined. Here, destiny effectively “folds” Islam into the very texture of mundane practices that, on the surface, may seem not just distant from Islam but even antithetical to it. This phenomenon obliges us to recast Max Weber's argument on predestination and action, as well as to reconsider current anthropological debates on “everyday Islam.” [ destiny, migration, hope, courtship, future, Islam, Morocco ]
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 by the American Anthropological Association
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URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12341/abstract
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1819909965
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