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Table of Contents

Iranian anthropology and ideology
Introduction
Anthropology as the research problem
Anthropology as the research subject
Methodological and theoretical considerations
Methodology
Discourses and concepts
The politics of anthropology
Writing a history of anthropology
Organization of the book
Anthropology and Iranian cultures
Iranian anthropology 1900-1925
Introduction
Travel accounts
Accounts of travel to European countries
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
Aryan theory and anthropology
Anthropological institutions
The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: formative phase
What is in the term Mardomshenasi
The Anthropological Museum of Iran
The Museum of Ancient Iran
Intellectual nationalist folklore studies
Sadeq Hedayat: founder of Iranian Folkloristics
Hedayat's thought
Hedayat's folkloristic studies
Owsaneh
Neyrangestan
Taraneh-haye Amiyaneh
Folk narratives
Folklor Ya Farhang-e Tudeh
Literary folkloristic writings
After Hedayat
Conclusion
Anthropology and modernization
Iranian anthropology 1941-1979
Introduction
Anthropology and modernization
History of academic anthropology in Iran
The Institute for Social Studies and Research
The fall of the institute
Anthropology and the West
Western curriculum
Centre in Periphery
Impact of western anthropological studies
Indigenization
Traditional Persian ethnology
Social themes of Persian literature
An assessment of indigenization
Monarchic nationalism
The Centre for Iranian anthropology: a new phase
The centre in the 1970s
Anthropology and anti-modernization
Islamic anthropology
Shariati's Islamic anthropology
The ethnography of the Hajj
Jalal al-e Ahmad and rural culture
Gharbzadegi
Owrazan
Tat Neshin-haye Boluk-e Zahra
Jazireye Kharg
Lost in the crowd
Liberal nationalism
Anjavi Shirazi and folklore
Socialism
Samad Behrangi and Azari folklore
Gholam Hossein Sa'edi: culture of poverty
Ahmad Shamlu and the folklore of Tehran
Professional folklorists
Conclusion
Anthropology and Islamism
Iranian anthropology in the 1980s
Introduction
A revolution against anthropology
An ideological explanation
Anthropology in the conflict between Islamic and national identity
The culture of the war front
The religious-secular conflict
Theoretical conflicts: Islamic anthropology
Muslim anthropology
Colonialism and anthropology
The culture of anthropology vs. political culture
The culture of anthropology
The political culture of the Islamic republic of Iran
Conclusion
Anthropology and Islamic modernization
Iranian anthropology in the 1990s
Introduction
Structural changes in postwar Iran
The discourse of reconstruction
The discourse of Islamic nationalism
The discourse of reform
The restoration of anthropology
The teaching of anthropology
The Iranian conception of anthropology
The anthropology curriculum
The students' conception of anthropology
Local knowledge studies
Local/native knowledge
Studies of the nomads
Cultural heritage studies
The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: the final phase
Folklore studies
Conclusion
Iranian anthropology - A conclusion
Introduction
Iranian national anthropology
Rethinking anthropology in Iran.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301/.0955
Library of Congress
GN17.3.I7 F39 2005, GN17.3.I7F39 2005, GN17.3.I7 F39 2006, GN17.3.I7 F39 2006eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3394774M
ISBN 10
0415370051
LCCN
2005006004
OCLC/WorldCat
71231936, 58050851
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711763

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