Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2017) A catalogue of vice: a sense of failure and incapacity to act among Roma Muslims in Macedonia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(2), pp. 338-355. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12610)
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Abstract
Understood in terms of action and efficacy, the regnant notion of agency in anthropology is juxtaposed with an ethnographic category of failure. Agency is problematized and refined through the fieldwork-grounded analysis of a faltering reform of a Sufi order in Macedonia, where failure was perceived and racially marked as the intrinsic incapacity of ‘Gypsies’ to commit to ritual action and overcome their propensity towards vice, thus achieving a desired self-transformation into virtuous beings.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Dr Galina |
Authors: | Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
Journal Name: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
Publisher: | Wiley |
ISSN: | 1359-0987 |
ISSN (Online): | 1467-9655 |
Published Online: | 26 April 2017 |
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