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Informationen zum Autor Pedram Khosronejad is a member of staff in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews! UK. He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology! the anthropology of death and dying! visual anthropology! visual piety! devotional artefacts! and religious material culture! with a particular interest in Iran! Persianate societies and the Islamic world. Klappentext Today! with which elements & values should we look at the Iran-Iraq war memorials & ceremonies? To what extent will war museums & materials culture be influenced by these new values? Even at the turn of the 21st century! anyone walking through Iranian cities will have found traces of the terrible! almost unimaginable! human losses. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role that memory of conflict plays in the context of Iran’s recent history. It will be of interest to social anthropologists, historians and those with an interest in Iran’s recent past and future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Unburied Memories Pedram Khosronejad 2. Redemptive Memories: Portraiture in the Cult of Commemoration Ingvild Flaskerud 3. Variations in the Martyrs’ Representations in South Tehran’s Private and Public Spaces Marine Fromanger 4. The Martyrs’ Museum in Tehran: Visualizing Memory in Post-Revolutionary Iran Christiane Gruber 5. Death, the Great Equalizer: Memorializing Martyred (Shahid) Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran Faegheh Shirazi 6. From the Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post-Revolutionary Iran Shahla Talebi 7. War Painting and Pilgrimage in Iran Alice Bombardier
