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Homogenization, Gender and Everyday Life in Pre- and Trans-modern Iran : An Archaeological Reading
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ISBN: 3830993501 Year: 2021 Publisher: Münster Waxmann

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Homogenization, Gender and Everyday Life in Pre- and Trans-modern Iran: An Archaeological Reading is actually an effort to investigate the interaction of power structure and gender in the context of everyday life in Iran in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book pursues two main goals: situating gender in Iranian archaeology and calling for more consideration to daily life in archaeological gender researches. Drawing on a wide range of material culture, textual evidence, statistics and oral accounts, all chapters render the destruction of the everyday life of ordinary people. Events like parties and ceremonies, marriage and kinship, sexual practices, dress codes and even eating and drinking were gently regulated by the surveillance state. Accordingly, the term homogenization in the book's title refers to the policies of the Pahlavi government, the first Iranian modern centralized state. In this way, the book seeks to understand the process of gender and sexual transformation of Iranian society, the process which resulted in the production of deviants and negative gender and sexual lives. Being the first archaeological research on gender by native archaeologists, the authors state the fact that this book investigates the politics of gender while many other aspects of gender remain still uninvestigated.


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Lost in things - fragen an die welt des materiellen.
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ISBN: 3830981759 9783830981756 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Waxmann Verlag Gmbh

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Sind wir verloren in den Dingen? Oder sind es letztlich die Dinge, die uns verloren gehen - in ihrem Übermaß, in ihrer Vielfalt, in ihrer alltäglichen Gegenwart, in ihrem unterschwelligen Uns-entgegen-Stehen, in ihrem Aus-unserem-Blick-Gleiten? Dieser Band verspricht keine klaren Antworten, aber doch die Möglichkeit, sich mit neuen Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen den Dingen auf eine neuartige Weise anzunähern. Er kann erklären, welches komplexe Mensch-Ding-Verhältnis wir unter »Lost in Things« begreifen. Seine Beiträge sind aus der internationalen Konferenz »Lost in Things - Questioning Functions and Meanings of the Material World« hervorgegangen, die im November 2013 an der Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main stattgefunden hat und deren Anliegen die Integration aktueller und innovativer Ansätze aus der Archäologie und der Ethnologie/Anthropologie zur Analyse materieller Kultur und des Mensch-Ding-Verhältnisses war. Die in dem Band versammelten Texte verbindet ihre engagierte, aufgrund des bisweilen hohen Abstraktionsgrades und der Komplexität der Gedankengänge auch herausfordernde Argumentation. - Sonja Windmüller in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2017 There are theoretical explorations as well as case-studies, from younger and established scholars, on a very wide variety of topics that are all related to "die Welt des Materiellen" in some way, but not at all from similar perspectives, nor dealing with similar research questions, or focussing on a specific discipline. [...] For archaeologists trying to put the material turn into practice, this model presents a most useful point of departure for understanding how humans are lost in things indeed. A stimulating collection of essays. - Miguel John Versluys, in: EAZ 1-2/2015 The anthology as a whole offers an inspiring read and points to central flaws in anthropological theory. It is true that things are incapacitated by representationalism. Things are supposed to reflect social structure, or ideologies and cosmologies. Things in these perspectives are subordinate to a priori ideal categories. Therefore, the change in perspective propagated here is reasonable and necessary. - Stefan Burmeister, in: Germania 97, S. 386-390.

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