ANT365H5 Lecture 7: ANT365 – Lecture 7
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Mahmood says that the women"s mosque movement implores us to rethink agency not as resistance to norms but as a modality of action. In the case of the mosque movement, it is the sequence of practices and actions one is engaged in that determines ones" desires and emotions . Amal and the example of shyness it is required by god and yet to fake shyness would be hypocritical. ^amal had to learn to be shy naturally. ^to pretend to be shy is not hypocritical, rather it eventually imprints itself on your inside . Note amal does not consider to simulate shyness as hypocritical, as it would be were internal feelings and external expressions clash. ^ how can i do something sincerely when my heart is not in it . Program of self-cultivation does not serve as a mask that is detached from the interiorized self.
