Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia
Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter 2013
Published in association with, and the financial support of, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS
ISSN: 2211-5722
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/acme/
acmejournal.org
- Chief Editor
Pedram Khosronejad, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- Assistant Editor
Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas, Austin, USA
- Book Review Editor
Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University, USA
- Film Review Editor
Michael Abecassis, University of Oxford, UK
Advisory Board
Lois Beck, Washington University, Saint Louis, USA; William O. Beeman, University of Minnesota, USA; Janice Boddy, University of Toronto, Canada; Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, USA; Juergen W. Frembgen, Museum of Ethnology, Munich, Germany; Clive Holes, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK; Pierre-Jean Luizard, GSRL-CNRS, France; Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, USA; Philip Carl Salzman, McGill University, Canada; Yasushi Tonoga, Kyoto University, Japan ; Pnina Werbner, Keele
University, UK.
Editorial Board
Kamran Aghaie, University of Texas, Austin, USA; Isabelle Charleux, GSRL-CNRS, France; Iain R. Edgar, Durham University, UK; Ayxem Eli, University of New South Wales, Australia; Nasser Fakouhi, University of Tehran, Iran; Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Bergen, Norway; Alireza Ghasemkhan, Tehran Open University, Iran; Bruce Grant, New York University, USA; Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France; Mazyar Lotfalian, University of California, Irvine, USA; Manijeh Maghsudi, University of Tehran, Iran; Ulrich Marzolph, University of Göttingen, Germany; Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University, USA; Ashirbek Muminov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Kazakhstan; Alexandre Papas, CNRS-EHESS, France; Paulo Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; François Ruegg, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Helga Tawil Souri, New York University, USA; Thierry Zarcone, GSRL-CNRS, France.
Contents
Articles
The anthropological unconscious of Iranian ethnographic films: a brief take
Hamid Naficy
Autoethnography as documentary in Iranian films and videos
Mazyar Lotfalian
Reflections on the diversity and religious functions of holy places and
sacred stones among Bakhtiari nomads
Pedram Khosronejad
Research notes
The miraculous origin of Qalandar amulets: notes on the material religion of dervishes and devotees in Pakistan – Jürgen Wasim Frembgen; Recent research in Boir Ahmad, south-west Iran – Erika Friedl; New publication – Lois Beck
Book reviews
Khosronejad, Pedram (ed.). Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity – reviewed by Negar Mottahedeh; Khosronejad, Pedram. Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran – reviewed by G.R. Garthwaite; Moghissi. Haideh and Halleh Ghorashi (eds.). Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging – reviewed by Sarah Tafakori; Rasanayagam, Johan. Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience – reviewed by Michael L. Zukosky; Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism – reviewed by Katja Rieck
Film reviews
Bön: Mustang to Menri. Dir. Tad Fetting – reviewed by Carlo A. Cubero; The Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari; Duduki of Tbilisi: Eldar Shoshitashvili and his Students; Funeral Chants from the Georgian Caucasus. Dir. Hugo Zemp – reviewed by Peter S. Allen; The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film. Community Supported Film– reviewed by Peter S. Allen; Night Café Nectar. Dir. Ligia Dabul – reviewed by Valentina Gamberi; Sari Stories. Dir. Sue Sudbury – reviewed by Carlo A. Cubero; Sex, Death and the Gods. Dir. Beedan Kidron – reviewed by Daniela Bevilacqua; The Songs of the Persian Gulf. Dir. Alireza Qasemkhan – reviewed by Peter Ian Crawford
Index to Volume 1
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The Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for the Anthropology of Iran
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St. Andrews
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/files/staff/142/CV.pdf
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Visiting Overseas Associate Professor
National Museum of Ethnology
10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita
Osaka 565-8511, Japan
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June 2013
Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari:
Description et Significations de Sculptures Zoomorphes dans une Société Tribale du Sud-ouest de l'Iran
(The Anthropology of Persianate Societies) Sean Kingston Publishing
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Jan. 2013
Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors (Ethnographic film)
https://vimeo.com/60553037
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Chief Editor
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME)
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/acme/
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