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Tombs, Mausoleums, Shrines and Memorials of Religious/Political Leaders of
the Contemporary Middle East (1980-2011)

Dear Colleagues,
After my recent call for papers regarding “Tombs, Mausoleums, Shrines and Memorials of Religious/Political Leaders of the Contemporary
Middle East (1980-2011)” I understood for many reasons this field of study is still undeveloped.  

Therefore by this e-mail I invite you for working together on one book publication project regarding above topic but ONLY related to the mentioned leaders (below).
Please send the title of your chapter, your discipline, a 500-word abstract and your full academic affiliation including your e-mail address
as an attached file (Office Word) by 30th Feb. 2014 to: ([log in to unmask])
This edited volume will be published by SeanKingston Publishing House in U.K.
All branches of disciplines are welcome.

Yours
P. Khosronejad

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeyni (1902-1989),
Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Saddam Hussein
(1937-2006), Muammar al-Gaddafi (1942-2011) and Osama Bin Ladan (1957-2011)
were all political, religious or pious leaders of important countries and
movements of the contemporary Middle East during the last two decades of
the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries. Their deaths and
funeral ceremonies, their burial places, and their tombs and mausoleums are
the main topics of our edited volume. We are interested in receiving proposals
which present new and unpublished researches on topics such as (but not
limited to):

-        Death and funeral ceremonies as national and state formation;
-       Funeral architecture and national identity;
-       Memorials and mausoleums as a mechanism of symbolic legitimation;
-        Significance of memorials and mausoleums in urban topography and
the creation of sacred public space;
-       The role of memorials and mausoleums in collective memory and
constructing the narrative of the past;
-       The role of memorials and mausoleums in innovation and the creation
of new rituals and performances;
-       The death of political and religious leaders and the creation of
new saints and sanctity;
-       Creation of new sites of worship and political-religious pilgrimage;
-       Formation of religious-political tourism.

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Department of Social Anthropology
University of St. Andrews                                    
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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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