Feeding Iran

Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic

Rose Wellman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37687-8 (ISBN)

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Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in national politics. Through extensive fieldwork, Rose Wellman examines how Basiji families, as members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary organization, are encountering, enacting, and challenging this imperative. Her ethnography reveals how families and state elites are employing blood, food, and prayer in commemorations for martyrs in Islamic national rituals to create citizens who embody familial piety, purity, and closeness to God. Feeding Iran provides a rare and humanistic account of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic that examines how home life and everyday piety are linked to state power.

Rose Wellman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Introduction: Kinship, Islam, and the State
1. Blood, Physio-Sacred Substance, and the Making of Moral Kin
2. Feeding the Family: The "Spirit" of Food in Iran
3. Regenerating the Islamic Republic: Commemorating Martyrs in Provincial Iran
4. Creating an Islamic Nation through Food
Epilogue

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	17 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-37687-0 / 0520376870
ISBN-13	978-0-520-37687-8 / 9780520376878
Zustand	Neuware