On interior landscapes1: Thinking with Ilyas, the Imam, and Stefania Pandolfo
Atreyee Majumder
Anthropology & Humanism August 30, 2024 DOI: 10.1111/anhu.12525 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Classical antiquity studies |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | The article argues that anthropology can approach the question of the soul through a close reading of Stefania Pandolfo's Knot of the Soul, an ethnographic account of Islamic healing in Morocco. It contends that Pandolfo's work offers a way to think about the soul, healing, and subjectivity that resists reducing them to purely psychological or cultural explanations. |
Abstract
This article is a meditation on the question of the soul as it may be approached in anthropology, through a close reading of Stefania Pandolfo's work on Islamic healing in Morocco, Knot of the Soul.