ISBN:
1503611965
,
9781503611962
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 312 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kia, Mana Persianate selves
DDC:
305.891/55009033
Keywords:
Nationalism History 18th century
;
Iranians Ethnic identity 18th century
;
History
;
Nationalism
;
Iranians ; Ethnic identity
;
History
;
Iran History 16th-18th centuries
;
Iran
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across Central, South, and West Asia, and their sense of self was not tied to modern ideas of nationalism, religion, or race. Mana Kia explores the common education and cultural logic that connected Persians, before the concept of the nation, describing how place, origin, and memory created a sense of self unbounded by the limits of colonial modernity"--
Abstract:
Landscapes -- Remembering, lamenting -- Place making and proximity -- Lineages and their places -- Kinship without ethnicity -- Naming and its affiliations -- Commemorating Persianate collectives, selves.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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