Entrepreneurs of Identity
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Anthropology of Religion
Author_Christoph Gunther
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Peace and Conflict Studies
Political and Economic Anthropology
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- ISBN 9781800732667
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Describing the Islamic State's ideologues as 'entrepreneurs of identity', this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring. Based on a wide dossier of original texts, speeches, images, and videos, the book examines how these ideologues have built a symbolic repertoire around the black flag as well as ideas and social practices such as the dictum to command good and forbid wrong, the supervision of public behaviour, and the oath of allegiance to the Caliph.
Christoph Gunther is the Principal Investigator of the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz. His recent publications include the co-edited Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
