this problem that the world of islam infront of european dynamic modernism is a static unit,has been the base of different hypothesis of the relation of islam and modernity. this issues are repeated that the islamic world be on principle excluded from the history of modern times, because it is bound to a religion which has not traversed the european politico-ideologicalprocess,thus it is a pre-...

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

the qajar era is of great importance in the socio-political history and in the history of architecture of tehran, because it was in this era that tehran became the capital of iran and turned into a big city, and then, because of its specific architecture, paved the way for some great changes in the architecture of iran. the qajar era is a period of contradiction in architectural values and atti...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...

................................................................................................................ v Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 Section 1: The Sociogenesis of Tattoos in the United States .................................... 4 Section 2: The Erosion of Tradition and the Rise of The Indi...

The phenomenon of ken lao embodies the structural tension and intergenerational ambivalence in transitional Chinese families. Two kinds of families in Shanghai that rely on parents are compared, including attitudes, response strategy to ken lao, and the impact on the intergenerational relationship. In order to discuss the coexistence of conventionality and modernity in today’s Chinese family li...