Politics of Culture in Iran
               Politics of Culture in Iran is the first comprehensive study of modern anthropology
               within the context of Iranian studies and politics in the twentieth century.
                  This book analyses the ways in which anthropology and culture in Iran have
               interacted with Iranian politics and society. In particular it highlights how and
               why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses
               and how they were appropriated and rejected by the pre- and post-revolutionary
               regimes. The author shows that there have been three main phases of Iranian
               anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political
               development of Iran and including:
               ●    The Period of Nationalism: lasting approximately from the Constitutional
                    Revolution (1906–11) and the end of the Qajar dynasty until the end of Reza
                    Shah’s reign (1941);
               ●    The Period of Nativism: from the 1950s until the Islamic Revolution (1979);
               ●    The Post-Revolutionary Period.
               This book also places Iran within an international context by demonstrating how
               Western anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies affected
               epistemological and political discourses in Iranian anthropology. Politics of Culture
               in Iran is essential reading for those with interests in Iranian society and politics
               and anthropology.
               Nematollah Fazeli is Associate Professor of Allameh Tabatab’ai University of
               Iran and he specializes in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies focusing on
               contemporary culture of Iran, ethnography and Higher Education Studies.
       Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies series
       Editorial Board
       Prof. C. E. Bosworth, Dr V. S. Curtis, Dr R. M. Gleave and 
       Dr V. A. Martin
       In this series, Routledge in association with the British Institute of Persian Studies
       (BIPS) publishes scholarly books on the social sciences and humanities in Iran.
       Such works include: original research monographs; suitably revised theses;
       specially planned books deriving from conferences; specially commissioned,
       multi-authored research books and translations.
       1 Iranian History and Politics
         The dialectic of state and society
         Homa Katouzian
       2 The Making of Modern Iran
         State and society under Riza Shah 1921–1941
         Edited by Stephanie Cronin
       3 Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran
         New perspectives on the Iranian Left
         Edited by Stephanie Cronin
       4 Religion and Society in Qajar Iran
         Edited by Robert Gleave
       5 The Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari
         An Iranian theoretician of the Islamic state
         Mahmood T. Davari
       6 Politics of Culture in Iran
         Anthropology, politics and society in the twentieth century
         Nematollah Fazeli
    Politics of Culture in Iran
    Anthropology, politics and society 
    in the twentieth century
    Nematollah Fazeli