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020 _a9781478018032
028 _a: International Book Distributors
_b: 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.
_c: 119330
_d: 27/05/2023
082 _a297.435 KAS
100 _aKasmani, Omar.
245 _aQueer companions
_b : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan.
_c/ Omar Kasmani.
260 _a, Durham
_b: Duke University Press
_c, 2022.
300 _axvi, 208 pages
_b : illustrations, maps
_c:24cm.
365 _b2395
505 _aOn Coming Close Infrastructures of the Imaginal Her Stories in His Durbar In Other Guises, Other Futures Love in a Time of Celibacy Fakirs, Fairies, and the Dead Queer Forward Slash Religion
520 _a"Queer Companions is an ethnographic account of Sufi fakirs at Pakistan's most important Sufi site, the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander. Omar Kasmani argues that these pilgrims' affective connections to the site's patron saint, who lived and died in the thirteenth century, lead them to queer forms of living. While some of the ethnographic interlocutors in the book are themselves LGBTQI, and a few are women who trouble the gendered ordering of the shrine, Kasmani attends to the queer forms of relationality, intimacy, and affinity that the site allows for rather than on the individual identities of the people themselves. He shows how their relation to the world is altered by embodied and imaginative modes of moving away from social objects and expectations and toward the saintly. As the site is a state-run national heritage site, Kasmani considers how this form of queer living brings individuals, society, and the state together through a public architecture of intimacy. In tracing the veering paths of these religious figures, Kasmani demonstrates how this form of intimacy might offer not a withdrawal from the world, but rather a different kind of queer worldmaking"
650 _a Ethnology
650 _aFakirs Pakistan Sehwan
650 _aPakistan Sehwan
650 _aSexual minority community
700 _aOmar Kasmani.
942 _cBOOK
999 _c60283
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