Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran

ISBN-13: 9780415523981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 174 str.

Pedram Khosronejad

Opis

Today, with which elements & values should we look at the Iran-Iraq war memorials & ceremonies? To what extent will war museums & materials culture be influenced by these new values? Even at the turn of the 21st century, anyone walking through Iranian cities will have found traces of the terrible, almost unimaginable, human losses.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Unburied Memories  Pedram Khosronejad  2. Redemptive Memories: Portraiture in the Cult of Commemoration  Ingvild Flaskerud  3. Variations in the Martyrs’ Representations in South Tehran’s Private and Public Spaces  Marine Fromanger  4. The Martyrs’ Museum in Tehran: Visualizing Memory in Post-Revolutionary Iran  Christiane Gruber  5. Death, the Great Equalizer: Memorializing Martyred (Shahid) Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran  Faegheh Shirazi  6. From the Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post-Revolutionary Iran  Shahla Talebi  7. War Painting and Pilgrimage in Iran  Alice Bombardier

O autorze

Pedram Khosronejad is a member of staff in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world.