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Feeding Iran : Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic
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Title
Feeding Iran : Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic / Rose Wellman.
ISBN
9780520976313
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (262 p.)
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In English.
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Summary
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. Rose Wellman, through extensive fieldwork, 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.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 14, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
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
Notes
References
Index
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