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Author Wellman, Rose, author

Title Feeding Iran : Shìi families and the making of the Islamic Republic / Rose Wellman
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Contents Introduction : kinship, Islam, and the state -- Blood, physio-sacred substance, and the making of moral kin -- Feeding the family : the "spirit" of food in Iran -- Regenerating the Islamic Republic : commemorating martyrs in provincial Iran -- Creating an Islamic nation through food -- Epilogue
Summary "Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in national politics. Rose Wellman, through extensive fieldwork, examines how Basiji families, as members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary organization, are encountering, enacting, and challenging this imperative. Her ethnography reveals how families and state elites are employing blood, food, and prayer in commemorations for martyrs in Islamic national rituals to create citizens who embody familial piety, purity, and closeness to God. Feeding Iran provides a rare and humanistic account of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic that examines how home life and everyday piety are linked to state power"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Kinship -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Paramilitary forces -- Social aspects -- Iran -- 21st century
Rites and ceremonies -- Iran -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Kinship -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Rites and ceremonies
Iran
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020049982
ISBN 0520976312
9780520976313