A catalogue of vice: a sense of failure and incapacity to act among Roma Muslims in Macedonia

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
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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