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Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia
Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 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
Representing spiritual and gendered space: Challenges in the audio-visual recording of Iranian Shi'a women’s rituals
Ingvild Flaskerud
Continuities and disruptions in Islamic education: Biographies of shogirds from Tajikistan
Sophie Roche
Purkhani as a ‘healing drama’: Analysis of a healing performance among Turkmen people of Iran
Mahnaz Alimardanian
Research notes
Syria: The emerging divide between external plans and internal perspectives – Estella Carpi; The relationship between the traditional, self-governing institution of mahallah, state administration and international donors – Anna Cieslewska; Subjectivity and desire: Members of the women-only gyms in Istanbul – Sertaç Sehlikoglu; ‘Rhino Season is in exile, just like me’: An interview with Bahman Ghobadi – Suncem Koçer; In brief: current projects and publications – Bruce Grant, John McManus, Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
Book reviews
Panjwani, Imranali (ed.). The Shia of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of the Community in Iraq – Reviewed by Liyakat Takim; Sayyid, Abd al-Hakim Khalil. Mazahir al-itiqad fi al-awliya: dirasah lil-mutaqadat al-shabiyah fi Misr – Reviewed by Khalid Yossef
Film reviews and essay
Coffee Futures (A short documentary about a long story). Dir. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel – Reviewed by Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach; Gringolandia. Dir. Dennis Lanson – Reviewed by Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach; Songs Of A Sorrowful Man. Dirs. Lina Fruzetti, Ákos Östör & Aditi Nath Sirkar – Reviewed by Michael Yorke; Tell Me When... Dirs. Steffen Köhn & Paola Calvo – Reviewed by Carlo A. Cubero; The Rising Wave. Dirs. Yask Desai & Shweta Kishore – Reviewed by Michael Yorke; Representations of war in Iranian cinema: fragments of an irretrievable past – Michaël Abecassis
Subscriptions
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Department of Social Anthropology
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University of St. Andrews
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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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Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors (Ethnographic film)
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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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