Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-651-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Geschichte der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi

PART I: FROM FOLKLORE TO ANTHROPOLOGY: THE PASSAGE

Chapter 1. The Contribution of Foreign Anthropologists to Iranology

Ali A. Bulookbashi

Chapter 2. Storytelling as a Constituent of Popular Culture: Folk Narrative Research in Contemporary Iran

Ulrich Marzolph

Chapter 3. Iranian Anthropology – Crossing Boundaries: Influences of Modernization, Social Transformation and Globalization

Mary Elaine Hegland

PART II: VOICES FROM WITHIN: INSTITUTIONS AND PROFESSIONS

Chapter 4. Anthropology in Post-revolutionary Iran

Nematollah Fazeli

Chapter 5. Making and Remaking an Academic Tradition: Towards an Indigenous Anthropology in Iran

Nasser Fakouhi

Chapter 6. Iranian Anthropologists Are Women

Soheila Shahshahani

PART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CONSTRAINTS AND POSSIBILITIES

Chapter 7. Applied Anthropology in Iran?

Jean-Pierre Digard

Chapter 8. Past Experiences and Future Perspectives of an Indigenous Anthropologist on Anthropological Work in Iran

Mohammad Shahbazi

Chapter 9. Anthropological Research in Iran

Lois Beck

Chapter 10. Being from There: Dilemmas of a ‘Native Anthropologist’

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

PART IV: PAST AND PRESENT PERSPECTIVES: CHALLENGING THE FUTURE

Chapter 11. Usual Topics: Taboo Themes and New Objects in Iranian Anthropology

Christian Bromberger

Chapter 12. Islamophobia and Malaise in Anthropology

Fariba Adelkhah

Chapter 13. Personal Reflections on Anthropology of and in Iran

Richard Tapper

Select Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R.
Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi is a social anthropologist, who worked at UNESCO in Paris from 1977 to 1984. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Germany) and a member of the Competence Network Crossroads Asia. Her research is focused on mobility and development in the Iranian coastal areas of the Persian Gulf and the eastern Provinces of Khorassan.

Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi is a social anthropologist, who worked at UNESCO in Paris from 1977 to 1984. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Germany) and a member of the Competence Network Crossroads Asia. Her research is focused on mobility and development in the Iranian coastal areas of the Persian Gulf and the eastern Provinces of Khorassan.