Based on cross- and same-sex audio-taped conversations in Syrian Arabic, this study examines how women exercise conversational control, and how men and women manage their conversational themes/topics. It is often argued in language and gender studies that women interact in ways …
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At the dawn of the 21st century, a "critical mass" of educated, enlightened, and empowered Muslim women have emerged around the world. Their fundamental questions about Islam and women may help in transforming Islamic laws and bringing about modern, egalitarian Muslim societies.…
Whatever way it is defined, power is a factor that influences the lives of all people. In studying power and powerlessness in Appalachia, John Gaventa observed that the feeling of powerlessness comes about as a response to the perceived experience of defeat. He found that belief…
This dissertation is a biocultural study of the ways in which food consumption of pregnant women is fashioned by their social and physical milieu. The aims were to examine how multiparous women interpreted the cultural norms of food consumption during pregnancy based on their em…
My thesis deals with the complex relationship between religion, society, and politics in the pre-colonial southwestern Sahara, an area where Islam was a powerful unifying force of a tribal virtually stateless society. In this society, two major social groups competed for power a…
My dissertation consists of five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction. The second chapter deals with methodological issues. The third chapter is an analysis of L'Homme rompu . The fourth chapter is an analysis of La Nuit de l'erreur . The fifth chapter is the conclusi…
This dissertation presents a cultural-historical analysis of an Indonesian Minangkabau village set within a larger regional, national and international history. This study, based on extensive field and library research concludes that contemporary society is the result of a centu…
When we think of nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century, we tend to reflect on Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. We honor these figures because they were exceptional: radical theologians who changed the world through their faith-based insistence on absolute nonv…
This dissertation chronicles how oral traditions describe the early history of the town of Musadu in Guinea-Conakry, and discusses how these traditions broaden our understanding of Musadu and West Africa's past. From the mid-nineteenth century to the late-twentieth century, more…
Drawing on twenty-two months of archival research in India, Pakistan and Iran, this study employs the figure of the Mughal prince to address and critique long-standing approaches to Mughal imperial power. Most scholars have either located or questioned the Mughal Empire's remark…
This is a study in the sociology of knowledge, focusing on the historiography of coastal East Africa and its surroundings through time. The focus is on the writing of coastal East African history and its relationship to the identities of both writers and readers/discussants in t…