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By Nematollah Fazeli

This first full-length learn of the heritage of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and improvement of anthropology in Iran within the 20th century. The textual content examines how and why anthropology and tradition grew to become a part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and the way they have been appropriated, and rejected, via the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes.



The writer highlights the 3 major levels of Iranian anthropology, corresponding extensively to 3 sessions within the social and political improvement of Iran:


*the interval of nationalism: lasting nearly from the constitutional revolution (1906-11) and the tip of the Qajar dynasty until eventually the top of Reza Shah’s reign (1941)
*the interval of Nativism: from the Fifties till the Islamic revolution (1979)
*the post-revolutionary interval.


In addition, the booklet areas Iranian anthropology in a global context by means of demonstrating how Western anthropological ideas, theories and methodologies affected epistemological and political discourses on Iranian anthropology.

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