ORCID Profile
0000-0001-5015-3513
Current Organisations
Australian National University
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Universität Wien
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-10-2023
DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.13938
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-06-2019
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.2979/PJHS.3.1.04
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2020
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12379
Publisher: Brill
Date: 13-02-2019
DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341606
Abstract: Dog fighting, along with other nonhuman-animal-fighting activities, is a popular pastime in rural South Punjab, Pakistan. This article explicates dog fighting and discusses its symbolic significance to those who control the game, organize it, and participate in the performance. In discussing the activity, the paper raises multiple questions: how do rural men develop an attachment to their fighting dogs? What motivates the men to engage in dog fighting? How is dog fighting a cultural practice? What type of social gains do dog fighters make when there is no gambling involved? Finally, what symbolic meanings can be drawn from this activity from an emic perspective? The article is based on year-long ethnographic fieldwork with dog fighters in South Punjab, Pakistan, and examines the activity within the Punjabi cultural context where it is taken as an enthusiastic predilection ( shauq ) for displaying masculinity ( mardāngī ) to achieve honor ( izzat ).
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-12-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12384
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-04-2201
DOI: 10.1111/AMET.13188
Abstract: The imperial underpinning of the early anthropology of Pakistan constituted “the other” as a subject of comprehension, categorization, and containment. Later, with the post‐9/11 geopolitical backdrop, anthropologists focused on selected themes such as religious and ethnic disparity and political nationalism, eliding some topics or groups. What would it mean for the anthropology of Pakistan to consider alienated themes and groups while emphasizing the infinity of the Other? How would conceiving the Other beyond a political or religious other, or even beyond a human subject, create a possibility of decolonizing the anthropology of Pakistan while exploring multiple futures—emergent, imagined, and expected? Such an approach critically moots a reexamination of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological tenets and urges the discipline to engage with erse lifeworlds. It brings the face of the Other face‐to‐face with anthropology beyond humanity to consider all beings, intersubjective and collaborative experiences, and shared values.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-02-2023
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