Talal Asad American Anthropologist
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First Name |
Talal
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Last Name |
Asad
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Birthday |
30th November, 1931
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Birthplace |
Saudi Arabia
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation |
Anthropologist
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Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born British cultural anthropologist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Asad has made important theoretical contributions to postcolonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Michel Foucault, Asad "complicates terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed".