Politics of culture in Iran : anthropology, politics and society in the twentieth century / Nematollah Fazeli

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-248) and index

Iranian anthropology and ideology -- Introduction -- Anthropology as the research problem -- Anthropology as the research subject -- Methodological and theoretical considerations -- Methodology -- Discourses and concepts -- The politics of anthropology -- Writing a history of anthropology -- Organization of the book -- Anthropology and Iranian cultures -- Iranian anthropology 1900-1925 -- Introduction -- Travel accounts -- Accounts of travel to European countries -- Orientalism -- Mythology and nationalist history -- The Shahnameh -- National culture and characteristics -- Archaeology and the identity question -- Folklore and modernist literati -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and nationalism -- Iranian anthropology 1925-1941 -- Introduction -- Political discourses in Reza Shah's time -- Anthropology in the reign of Reza Shah -- Aryan theory and anthropology -- Anthropological institutions -- The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: formative phase -- What is in the term Mardomshenasi -- The Anthropological Museum of Iran -- The Museum of Ancient Iran -- Intellectual nationalist folklore studies -- Sadeq Hedayat: founder of Iranian Folkloristics -- Hedayat's thought -- Hedayat's folkloristic studies -- Owsaneh -- Neyrangestan -- Taraneh-haye Amiyaneh -- Folk narratives -- Folklor Ya Farhang-e Tudeh -- Literary folkloristic writings -- After Hedayat -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and modernization -- Iranian anthropology 1941-1979 -- Introduction -- Anthropology and modernization -- History of academic anthropology in Iran -- The Institute for Social Studies and Research -- The fall of the institute -- Anthropology and the West -- Western curriculum -- Centre in Periphery -- Impact of western anthropological studies -- Indigenization -- Traditional Persian ethnology -- Social themes of Persian literature -- An assessment of indigenization -- Monarchic nationalism -- The Centre for Iranian anthropology: a new phase -- The centre in the 1970s -- Anthropology and anti-modernization -- Islamic anthropology -- Shariati's Islamic anthropology -- The ethnography of the Hajj -- Jalal al-e Ahmad and rural culture -- Gharbzadegi -- Owrazan -- Tat Neshin-haye Boluk-e Zahra -- Jazireye Kharg -- Lost in the crowd -- Liberal nationalism -- Anjavi Shirazi and folklore -- Socialism -- Samad Behrangi and Azari folklore -- Gholam Hossein Sa'edi: culture of poverty -- Ahmad Shamlu and the folklore of Tehran -- Professional folklorists -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and Islamism -- Iranian anthropology in the 1980s -- Introduction -- A revolution against anthropology -- An ideological explanation -- Anthropology in the conflict between Islamic and national identity -- The culture of the war front -- The religious-secular conflict -- Theoretical conflicts: Islamic anthropology -- Muslim anthropology -- Colonialism and anthropology -- The culture of anthropology vs. political culture -- The culture of anthropology -- The political culture of the Islamic republic of Iran -- Conclusion -- Anthropology and Islamic modernization -- Iranian anthropology in the 1990s -- Introduction -- Structural changes in postwar Iran -- The discourse of reconstruction -- The discourse of Islamic nationalism -- The discourse of reform -- The restoration of anthropology -- The teaching of anthropology -- The Iranian conception of anthropology -- The anthropology curriculum -- The students' conception of anthropology -- Local knowledge studies -- Local/native knowledge -- Studies of the nomads -- Cultural heritage studies -- The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: the final phase -- Folklore studies -- Conclusion -- Iranian anthropology - A conclusion -- Introduction -- Iranian national anthropology -- Rethinking anthropology in Iran.