Feeding Iran

Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-37686-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wellman, Rose

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Rose Wellman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.