Buch
Monografie
Tribeswomen of Iran : weaving memories among Qashqa'i Nomads
Verfasst von:
Huang, Julia
London [u. a.]:
Tauris Academic Studies
,
2009
,
269 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Huang, Julia |
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International library of Iranian studies
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| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Maße: | 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1845118324 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal Iranian life, offering a rare glimpse into the daily rhythms and social richness beyond the capital city of Tehran. The Qashqa'i are a confederation of nomadic tribes, of which the Qermezi ('Red Ones') are one, migrating semiannually between winter pastures near the Persian Gulf and summer pastures southwest of the city of Isfahan. Huang has visited and traveled with the Qermezi for extended periods across fourteen years. Drawing on her experiences, participation and observation, she offers an intimate window onto their life. She focuses on a small group of women spanning four generations who are part of a large extended family, and describes their ways of life, their activities and interactions, and their distinctive sociocultural and ecological setting. Huang shows how women negotiate compromises between customary tribal values and external influences, and sketches their efforts to resist the influences of an Islamizing, modernizing and centralizing government. With shadows and resonances that rebound across the stories of these women, Huang is able to present multiple perspectives on events and contentious issues, for instance the politicized issue of women's state-mandated modest dress. Huang also explains how the Turkic-speaking Qashqa'i relate to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic of Iran, adapting to a rapidly changing world while retaining tribal values and a distinctive ethnolinguistic identity as one of Iran's national minorities. | |
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