Down to the Bone: Dissecting Blackness in Early-Twentieth-Century Egypt
With Dr. Taylor Moore
Shreya Parikh, Ph.D Candidate in UNC Sociology, Moderator
March 18th, 4PM
Taylor M. Moore is a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies, decolonial/postcolonial histories of science, and decolonial materiality studies. Her manuscript-inpreparation, Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1880-1950. Taylor’s work is invested in illuminating the occult(ed) networks, economies, and actors whose bodies and labor are generally rendered invisible in Eurocentric histories of global science.
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Sponsored by the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and co-sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center and the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies.
