Annotated Bibliography
Theory – this section contains sources that will help build my particular theoretical framework and its development throughout each part of the essay.
Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 2003.
In chapter seven of his book, Talal Asad argues that Egyptian society had to undergo reconfigurations in its social landscape; that is it had to develop new social spheres among ordinary Egyptians that could allow secularism to gain hegemony in Egypt in the highest echelons of government, a process facilitated by the fundamental refashioning of certain concepts such as family, law, and morality within Egyptian society. Not only is Asad’s analysis located in the same time period and region I am working in but I also want to compare and contrast his argument with Katherine Ewing’s one in her book. The two sound very similar in terms of theory I am looking at regarding reconfiguration; however, the differences between their arguments raise …show more content…
His work primarily helps me to dissect Web Keane’s ideas regarding semiotic ideology and argumentation, which is an important pattern of thought within my argument, for the determination of the semiotic ideology often determines the ontological nature of the material thing (219). At times I find Keane’s language hard to dissect and Engelke provides a nice supplement while reading Keane. Additionally Engelke discusses EB Tylor, an important British anthropologist, his particular methodology, his assumptions about the world influenced through Victorian thought, and how they reveal themselves within his writings. My primary sources look at British contemporaries of Tylor in Egypt, and thus, Engelke will provide a direction for me to look regarding their analysis as
Theory – this section contains sources that will help build my particular theoretical framework and its development throughout each part of the essay.
Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 2003.
In chapter seven of his book, Talal Asad argues that Egyptian society had to undergo reconfigurations in its social landscape; that is it had to develop new social spheres among ordinary Egyptians that could allow secularism to gain hegemony in Egypt in the highest echelons of government, a process facilitated by the fundamental refashioning of certain concepts such as family, law, and morality within Egyptian society. Not only is Asad’s analysis located in the same time period and region I am working in but I also want to compare and contrast his argument with Katherine Ewing’s one in her book. The two sound very similar in terms of theory I am looking at regarding reconfiguration; however, the differences between their arguments raise …show more content…
His work primarily helps me to dissect Web Keane’s ideas regarding semiotic ideology and argumentation, which is an important pattern of thought within my argument, for the determination of the semiotic ideology often determines the ontological nature of the material thing (219). At times I find Keane’s language hard to dissect and Engelke provides a nice supplement while reading Keane. Additionally Engelke discusses EB Tylor, an important British anthropologist, his particular methodology, his assumptions about the world influenced through Victorian thought, and how they reveal themselves within his writings. My primary sources look at British contemporaries of Tylor in Egypt, and thus, Engelke will provide a direction for me to look regarding their analysis as