Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Talal Asad
Born: 1933 (age 91)
Bio: Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Known for:
- Formations of the secular (2003)
- Genealogies of religion (1993)
- On Suicide Bombing (2007)
- Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter (1973)