Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic
Author:   Rose Wellman
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520376878


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Rose Wellman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520376878


ISBN 10:   0520376870
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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Wellman's work is a powerful contribution in the best tradition of anthropology, from which sociologists of religion and Islam can learn a great deal. * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review * Beyond food studies, for those interested in contemporary kinship studies, or the anthropology of the Middle East, particularly Iran, [this book] sheds an important light on the inculcation of every day, embodied support for the illiberal state. * Anthropological Quarterly * Feeding Iran offers an account of kinship and the intersection of kinship and politics. . . .readers are unlikely to mistake the emotional and perspectival empathy she applies in her fieldwork. * Religiologies *


Wellman's work is a powerful contribution in the best tradition of anthropology, from which sociologists of religion and Islam can learn a great deal. * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *


"""Wellman’s work is a powerful contribution in the best tradition of anthropology, from which sociologists of religion and Islam can learn a great deal."" * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review * ""Beyond food studies, for those interested in contemporary kinship studies, or the anthropology of the Middle East, particularly Iran, [this book] sheds an important light on the inculcation of every day, embodied support for the illiberal state."" * Anthropological Quarterly * ""Feeding Iran offers an account of kinship and the intersection of kinship and politics. . . .readers are unlikely to mistake the emotional and perspectival empathy she applies in her fieldwork."" * Religiologies *"


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

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