Religious rules and thick description: thoughts from the anthropology of Islam

The recent anthropology of ethics has sought to look beyond rules to themes such as the cultivation of the virtuous self. Anthropology generally has grown impatient with what Bourdieu called ‘the fallacies of the rule’ as a key term for describing the social. But rules remain a crucial dimension of...

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Main Author: Clarke, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura 2022