Being Modern in Iran - Couverture rigide

Adelkhah, Fariba

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231119402 ISBN 13 : 9780231119405

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2000

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Being Modern in Iran Through the Iranian example of life in the late-1990s, this text reviews the debate not merely about political Islam, but also about democratic transition and its relation to social change. Full description

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Since its 1979 revolution seized the world's attention, the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained a subject of misunderstanding, passion, and polemic. This book -- a study of Iran's political culture in the broadest and deepest sense -- examines the tremendous changes taking place in Iran today.

Most studies of contemporary Iran overemphasize the revolution's radical break with the past and focus exclusively on the Republic's Islamic character as the decisive factor in its social reality. But modernity has not simply been banished and excluded from Iran; nor have the effects of globalization passed it by. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Iran and an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary Iranian politics and culture, anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah investigates modernity in the Islamic Republic of Iran by looking at the growth of individualism, the bureaucracy, commercial forces, and rationalization in post-revolution Iran.

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