in South Asian Islam

Person, Myth and Society in South Asian Islam Edited by Pnina Werbner CONTENTS Page

Introduction ..

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Reflection on Self and Person in a Pastoral Cornmunity

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Validating Domination among Egalitarian Individualists: Swat, Northern Pakistan and the USA . . .. . .. . Charles

Lindholm

The Luminous Nurani: Charisma and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis in Pakistan. . . . S. lamal

Malik

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Eremplary Personhood and the Political Mythology

ofOverseasPakistanis

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The Muslim Hero as Defender of Hindus:

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The "Truth" about Muslims in Benares: An Exploration in School Curricula and Popular Lore

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Kumar

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Kurin

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Turbans, Skirts and Spirit: Folk models of a Punjabi

Muslim

Brotherhood

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The Cultural Construction of Shared Identity:

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SOCIAL ANALYSIS of Cultural and Social Practice Journal Number 28, July 1990 1.:-_:htsreservcd:nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,ortransmittedinany or b1' any means, without permission of the Copyright Owner.

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EDITORIAL STRUCTURE E dit or : I{ingslev Garb ett Managing Editor: Michael Roberts Editorial A s sistant : Marian Thompson H onorary Secretary : Helen Hague Editorial Panel: Tom Ernst, I(ingsley Garbett, Michael Roberts Editorial C ons ultants : Michael Allen: Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney Geoffrey Benjamin: Sociology Department, National University of Singapore

Ann Chowning: Department of Anthropology, Victoria University of Wcllington Malcolm Crick: School of Social Sciences, Deakin University Greg Dening: Department of History, University of Melbournc Chris Eipper: Department of Anthropology & Sociology, LaTrobe University fames W. Fernandez: Dcpartnent of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Anthony Good: Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh Annette Hamilton: Departmcnt of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology. Macquarie University Ulf Hannerz: De partmcnt of Social Anthropology. Stockholm University Luc de Heusch: lnstitut de Sociologie, Universit6 Libre de Bruxelles David Hyndman: Dcpartment of Anthropology, University. of Quccnsland foel Kahn: Department of Anthropology, Monash University Bruce Kapferer: Departmcnt of Anthropology, University of London Ivan Karp: Smithsonian Institution, Washington. fohn Lofland: Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis Thomas Luckmann: Department of Sociology. University of l(onstarrz. Wqst Germany

Frank Manning: DeDartment of Anthropologv, Universitv of Weste rn Ontario Fred Myers: Department of Anthropology, Ncw York University Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Sherry Ortner: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Basil Sansom: Department of Anthropology, University of Westein Australia Alison M. Scott: Department of Sociology, University of Essex Marilyn Strathern: Department of Anthropology, University of Manchester Michael Taussig: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Valerio Valeri: Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Anna Yeatman: Department of Sociology, Flinders University Michael Young: Department of Anthropology. R.s.P.s.. Australian National university.

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