The Thousand and One Borders of Iran: Travel and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367869175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 322 str.

Fariba Adelkhah

Opis

The Thousand and One Borders of Iran analyses travel as a social practice, exploring how diasporas, margins and so-called peripheries are central in the construction of a national identity and thus revealing the complexities of Iranian history and society. Written by a leading anthropologist, it draws upon fieldwork carri

Spis treści

Preface Introduction. On the road to Damascus 1. Beyond the national story 2. Leaving without leaving behind, leaving behind without leaving 3. Another look at pilgrimage. 4. Iran: an off-shore identity Conclusion Iran between self-sacrifice and dirty tricks

O autorze

Fariba Adelkhah is a social anthropologist and director of research at Sciences Po/Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI) in Paris. Her main research interests focus on the interplay between social changes and political transformations in Iran since the second half of the twentieth century. She has also undertaken important research on Afghanistan as a mirror for Iranian society.