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Tribeswomen of Iran: Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Julia Huang
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Description for Tribeswomen of Iran: Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Hardback. The Qashqa'i nomads are migrant pastoralists. This book documents their difficult livelihoods and lifestyles, their society and culture, and explains how this Turkic-speaking group relates to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic. Focusing on a group of women, it shows how they adapt to a changing world while retaining tribal values. Series: International Library of Iranian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 in 8pp colour plates, 25 black and white integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal life in Iran and depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western media. Huang documents the difficult livelihoods and lifestyles of these mobile Qashqa'i pastoralists and their society and culture, and she explains how this Turkic-speaking group relates to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic. Focusing on a small group of women, she shows us how they adapt to a ... Read more
Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal life in Iran and depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western media. Huang documents the difficult livelihoods and lifestyles of these mobile Qashqa'i pastoralists and their society and culture, and she explains how this Turkic-speaking group relates to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic. Focusing on a small group of women, she shows us how they adapt to a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
International Library of Iranian Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845118327
SKU
V9781845118327
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About Julia Huang
Julia Huang has lived among Qashqa���i nomadic pastoralists in southwestern Iran for extended periods of her childhood and adolescence between 1991 and 2004, together with her mother, the distinguished American anthropologist, Lois Beck. Huang is the author of a chapter in 'Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa' (2006; edited by Dawn Chatty) and the co-author of an ... Read more
Reviews for Tribeswomen of Iran: Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Tribeswomen of Iran takes the reader into the empty sectors of southwestern Iran. There, Huang describes earth and sky and a tribal people closely linked by kinship, history, and the new challenges that come from the Islamic regime in Tehran and from modernity itself. A work of power and complexity it is memoir, ethnography, and a work of literature. ... Read more