Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology : : Past and Present Perspectives / / ed. by Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adelkhah, Fariba,; Beck, Lois,; Bromberger, Christian,; Bulookbashi, Ali,; Digard, Jean-Pierre,; Fakouhi, Nasser,; Fazeli, Nematollah,; Hegland, Mary Elaine,; Marzolph, Ulrich,; Mir-Hosseini, Ziba,; Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R.,; Shahbazi, Mohammad,; Shahshahani, Soheila,; Tapper, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Introduction --; PART I From Folkore to Anthropology The Passage --; CHAPTER 1 The Contribution of Foreign Anthropologists to Iranology --; CHAPTER 2 Storytelling as a Constituent of Popular Culture Folk Narrative Research in Contemporary Iran --; CHAPTER 3 Iranian Anthropology – Crossing Boundaries Influences of Modernization, Social Transformation and Globalization --; PART II Voices from Within Institutions and Professions --; CHAPTER 4 Anthropology in Post-Revolution Iran --; CHAPTER 5 Making and Remaking an Academic Tradition Towards an Indigenous Anthropology in Iran --; CHAPTER 6 Iranian Anthropologists Are Women --; PART III Anthropological Practice: Constraints and Possibilities --; CHAPTER 7 Applied Anthropology in Iran? --; CHAPTER 8 Past Experiences and Future Perspectives of an Indigenous Anthropologist on Anthropological Work in Iran --; CHAPTER 9 Anthropological Research in Iran --; CHAPTER 10 Being From There Dilemmas of a ‘Native Anthropologist’ --; PART IV Past and Present Perspectives Challenging the Future --; CHAPTER 11 Usual Topics Taboo Themes and New Objects in Iranian Anthropology --; CHAPTER 12 Islamophobia and Malaise in Anthropology --; CHAPTER 13 Personal Refl ections on Anthropology of and in Iran --; Select Bibliography for Anthropology of Iran --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845457952; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845457952
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi.

During recent years, attempts have been made to move beyond the Eurocentric perspective that characterized the social sciences, especially anthropology, for over 150 years. A debate on the “anthropology of anthropology” was needed, one that would consider other forms of knowledge, modalities of writing, and political and intellectual practices. This volume undertakes that challenge: it is the result of discussions held at the first organized encounter between Iranian, American, and European anthropologists since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It is considered an important first step in overcoming the dichotomy between “peripheral anthropologies” versus “central anthropologies.” The contributors examine, from a critical perspective, the historical, cultural, and political field in which anthropological research emerged in Iran at the beginning of the twentieth century and in which it continues to develop today.