Kurdistan on the Global Stage : : Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq / / Diane E. King.

Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Ba'thist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a r...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.) :; 19 photographs, 2 figures, 4 m
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Proper Nouns
  • 1. Kurdistan Glocal
  • 2. Fieldwork in a Danger Zone
  • 3. A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place
  • 4. Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny
  • 5. Politicking
  • 6. Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global
  • 7. Kurdistan in the World
  • Notes
  • Glossary and Acronyms
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author