Title: Politics of culture in Iran : anthropology, politics and society in the twentieth century /
Authors: Fazeli, Nematallah.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Anthropology Iran History; Anthropology History; Anthropology Iran History.; Anthropology History; Iran Social life and customs; Iran Social life and customs.
Abstract: "Politics of Culture in Iran is the first comprehensive study of modern anthropology within the context of Iranian studies and politics in the twentieth century. This book analyses the ways in which anthropology and culture in Iran have interacted with Iranian politics and society. In particular it highlights how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses and how they were appropriated and rejected by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author shows that there have been three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran."--Jacket.
Contents: Iranian anthropology and ideology -- Introduction -- Anthropology as the research problem -- Anthropology as the research subject -- Methodological and theoretical considerations -- The politics of anthropology -- Writing a history of anthropology -- Organization of the book -- Anthropology and Iranian cultures : Iranian anthropology 1900-25 -- Introduction -- Travel accounts -- Orientalism -- Mythology and nationalist history -- The Shahnameh -- National culture and characteristics -- Archaeology and the identity question -- Folklore and modernist literati -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and nationalism : Iranian anthropology 1925-1941 -- Introduction -- Political discourses in Reza Shah's time -- Anthropology in the reign of Reza Shah -- Anthropological institutions -- Intellectual nationalist folklore studies -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and modernization : Iranian anthropology 1941-79 -- Introduction -- Anthropology and modernization -- Anthropology and the West -- Indigenization -- Anthropology and anti-modernization -- Liberal nationalism -- Socialism -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and Islamism : Iranian anthropology in the 1990s -- Introduction -- Structural changes in postwar Iran -- The teaching of anthropology -- Local knowledge studies -- Studies of the nomads -- Cultural heritage studies -- Folklore studies -- Conclusion -- Iranian anthropology -- A conclusion -- Introduction -- Iranian national anthropology : a conclusion -- Introduction -- Rethinking anthropology in Iran.