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12 – 1:30PM  Friday, February 3, 2012
 

The Stuff of Life in Islamicate Eurasia: Towards a history of premodern folk ontologies

Iran Colloquium

Gagan Sood, Yale University

Luce Hall, 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Location is wheelchair accessible
If we wish to grasp why ordinary people acted, thought and felt the way they did in going about their daily lives, we need to recapture their lives’ guiding parameters and motivating impulses. We need to develop, in other words, a keen sense of what shaped their behavioural orientations towards their surroundings, and framed how they actually met the world. The prevailing folk ontologies necessarily lie at the core of this agenda. Drawing largely on my research into mobile, literate, cosmopolitan, but inconspicuous, inhabitants of Islamicate Eurasia in the early eighteenth century, my talk will sketch out an approach for recovering such ontologies in specific premodern contexts.

Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Sponsor: The Council on Middle East Studies, The MacMillan Center
Contact Information: Lora LeMosy, lora.lemosy@yale.edu

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