Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism /

"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 the...

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Main Author: Kia, Mana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes
  • Remembering, lamenting
  • Place making and proximity
  • Lineages and their places
  • Kinship without ethnicity
  • Naming and its affiliations
  • Commemorating Persianate collectives, selves.