Talal Asad
1932
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country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford
occupation: anthropologist
influenced by: Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Mauss, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau
Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, postcolonialism, and notions of power, law and discipline. He is also known for his writing calling for an anthropology of secularism. His work has had a significant influence beyond his home discipline of anthropology. As Donovan Schaefer writes:The gravitational field of Asad’s influence has emanated far from his home discipline and reshaped the landscape of other humanistic disciplines around him. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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