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Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic
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AnthropologyAgricultureGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies
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ISBN10: 0520376862
ISBN13: 9780520376861
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780520376861
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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. Through extensive fieldwork, Rose Wellman 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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