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> H-ASIA
> Feb 26 2011
>
> Member New Publication: Interpreting the Sindhi World
> ***************************************
> From: "Cook, Matthew A" <mcook@NCCU.EDU>
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> I would like to announce the recent publication by OUP of my second
> book on Sindh. Edited with Michel Boivin (of EHESS and CRNS) it is a
> collection of contemporary research on Sindh and Sindhis. A full
> description of the book is pasted below.
>
> All the best,
>
> Matt
>
> Description
>
> _Interpreting the Sindhi World_ seeks to unite the wide community of
> scholars who work on Sindh and with Sindhis. The book's
> interdisciplinary focus is on history and society, and represents a
> 'snap shot' of contemporary research from different disciplines and
> locations. Combining interdisciplinary and multi-local approaches, it
> describes the diversity of Sindh's 'voices' and raises questions about
> how they are historically and socio-culturally defined.
>
> Conventional studies of Sindh and Sindhis often bend the region and
> its people upon themselves to analyze society and history. This
> collection of essays treats Sindh and its people not as isolated
> regional entities, but rather entries in a wider socio-cultural and
> historical web. Sindhis are a global community and this collection
> generates new perspectives on them by integrating detailed studies on
> Pakistan with those from India and the Diaspora. Such an approach
> contrasts with other writings by celebrating rather than erasing multi-
> cultural faces from Sindh's human tapestry. By rethreading unheard
> socio-cultural and historical voices into understanding Sindh and its
> people, Interpreting the Sindhi World disputes the vision of Sindhis
> as a monolithic population in Pakistan.
>
>
> Table of Contents
> Introduction, Michel Boivin and Matthew A. Cook
> 1. Myths of Jhuley Lal: Deconstructing a Sindhi Cultural Icon, Lata
> Parwani
> 2. Mobility, Territory, and Authenticity: Sindhi Hindus in Kutch,
> Gujarat, Farhana Ibrahim
> 3. Unwanted Identities in Gujarat, Rita Kothari
> 4. Recreating Sindh: Formations of Sindhi Hindu Guru Movements in New
> Contexts, Steven Ramey
> 5. Code Switching Among Sindhis Experiencing Language Shift in
> Malaysia, Maya Khemlani David
> 6. Pithoro Pir and Sufi Culture: A Historically Unexamined Socio-
> Religious Tradition in Sindh, Michel Boivin
> 7. Getting Ahead or Keeping Your Head? The 'Sindhi' Migration of the
> Eighteenth Century, Matthew A. Cook
> 8. Richard Burton's Sindh: Folklore, Syncretism, and Empire, Paulo
> Lemos Horta
> 9. 1947: Recovering Displaced Histories of Karachi, Vazira Fazila-
> Yacoobali Zamindar
> 10. The Sufi Saints of Sindhi Nationalism, Oskar Verkaaik
>
> Product Details
> 246 pages; 5-1/2 x 8-1/2;
> ISBN13: 978-0-19-547719-1
> ISBN10: 0-19-547719-7
>
> Michel Boivin is a historian. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre
> for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS), National Centre for
> Scientific Research, affiliated with the School of Advanced Studies in
> Social Sciences (EHESS) as a member of the CEIAS, and is also a Fellow
> at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). A
> specialist of the Muslims of South Asia, his research is focused on
> the interaction between society and religion during the 19th and 20th
> centuries, with a special interest in the Sindhi region, a
> geographical area straddling Pakistan and India. He is currently
> heading a CEIAS research team on History and Sufism in the Indus
> Valley and an interdisciplinary project on the Sufi center of Sehwan
> Sharif (South Pakistan).
>
>
> Matthew A. Cook is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and South Asian
> Studies at North Carolina Central University, and is also affiliated
> with the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies at Duke
> University. His past teaching appointments include: North Carolina
> State University, New York University, Columbia University, Hofstra
> University, and Duke University. His research focus is on colonialism
> in South Asia and the methodological conjunction of anthropology and
> history. He has authored book chapters, journal articles and reviews
> published by Eastern Anthropologist, Sagar, Columbia Journal of
> Historiography, Columbia Historical Review, Educational Practice and
> Theory, Curriculum and Teaching, South Asian Review and Pacific
> Affairs, Itinerario, and others.
>
>
> Matthew A. Cook, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and South Asian Studies
> Departments of History and English
>
> Office:
> 321 Farrison-Newton Communications Blg.
> North Carolina Central University
> Durham, NC 27707
> tel: 919-530-6883
> fax: 919-530-7991
>
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