| Description |
1 online resource (170) : illustrations |
| Series |
Iranian Studies |
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Iranian Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Back to the future: time travel and Iranian identity -- 2 Shooting the past, staging the revolution -- 3 Stage managing the return of the repressed -- 4 From the displaced to the misplaced -- 5 The hen�s husband, or deterritorializations of Persian -- 6 Illuminating internal alterities -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world. Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity demonstrates these fissures and the incompatibilities that refuse to be writ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067884
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Iran -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Iran
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317429354 |
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9781317429357 |
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9781317429340 |
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9781317429333 |
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1317429346 |
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1317429338 |
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