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Guest Lecture: Prof. Michel Boivin on June 28th, 2013
We cordially invite to the guest lecture by Michel Boivin entitled
"Shrines, rituals and processions in Pakistan: Sehwan Sharif as a ritual city".
The lecture takes place on Friday, the 28th June, 2013 at 6 p. m. in room E 11 of the South Asia Institute.
Prof. Michel Boivin
Centre d’Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du sud, Paris
Centre for Social Studies, Karachi
Shrines, rituals and processions in Pakistan:
Sehwan Sharif as a ritual city
Abstract:
"Shrines, rituals and processions in Pakistan: Sehwan Sharif as a ritual city".
The lecture takes place on Friday, the 28th June, 2013 at 6 p. m. in room E 11 of the South Asia Institute.
Prof. Michel Boivin
Centre d’Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du sud, Paris
Centre for Social Studies, Karachi
Shrines, rituals and processions in Pakistan:
Sehwan Sharif as a ritual city
Abstract:
In
the book she has published in 1994, Paula Sanders has coined Fatimid
Cairo as a ritual city. I wish to use this concept for the much more
restricted urban space of Sehwan Sharif, in South-East Pakistan.
Therefore, following Sanders, I shall look at how Sehwan was constructed
through topography, shrines and ceremonies as a ritual city, how this
ritual city was transformed over time and how the new meanings it
acquired were in turn exploited to articulate changing social,
religious, and finally political commitments.
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