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Children of Deh Koh

Young Life in an Iranian Village

By: Erika Friedl

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Children of Deh Koh

Young Life in an Iranian Village

By: Erika Friedl

The people Friedl studied are Shi'a Lurs living in the high mountains of southwest Iran. This book focuses on children and compliments her earlier work on women of the same village (see document no. 6.) The same families and names appear in both books. Beginning with pregnancy and birth, she discusses the development of children by age group and gender up to marriage. The material conveyed is personal and anecdotal, covering children's behavior and play and their relationships with each other and adults. She masterfully relates their thinking and feelings through acute observation and verbatim conversation. Rural familial dynamics and gender relations are artfully revealed.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815627572

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9780815627579

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Theology, Saints, People

By: Erika Friedl

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Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Theology, Saints, People

By: Erika Friedl

Until the 1960s, little was known inside or outside Iran about the tribes living in the country. The anthropological research of Erika Friedl is now renowned for presenting comprehensive data collected over a 50-year period from her time among the Boir Ahmad tribal people living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In this new book, Friedl turns her attention to the subject of religion, which she had only touched upon in her previous work. About ninety percent of people in Iran and nearly everybody in Boir Ahmad are Muslims of the Twelver Shia group. However, studies of tribal people's religiosity, beliefs and rituals are scarce, and many researchers have discounted their views and experience, regarding the tribes as only “nominally religious” because their practices do not fit in with the mainstream practices and ideas in Iran. Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran corrects this view and provides a hallmark study of tribal people's religiosity. Demonstrating the great diversity of their philosophical and religious ideas, the book reveals the ways in which the tribes choose and express their religion, define their communities and understand their world. From conversations about God and his relationships with people, to observations on ageing and death, and research into the tribe's use of spells, amulets and sacrifices, to their beliefs about saints, health and well-being, the book is an original ethnographic exploration of religion and daily life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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075561674X

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9780755616749

The Folktales and Storytellers of Tribal Iran

Culture, Ethos and Identity

By: Erika Friedl

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The Folktales and Storytellers of Tribal Iran

Culture, Ethos and Identity

By: Erika Friedl

What are the myths and stories that penetrate a society's everyday practices? What are the un-questioned 'truths' that hold the keys to understanding both the concept of self-perception and group identity? Here, Erika Friedl highlights the role of the fairy tale and folklore in the creation, transmission and manipulation of regional and national identities. Having carried out anthropological research in Iran since 1965, Friedl is uniquely placed to analyze the ways in which the folklore and fairy tales – both the stories themselves and the telling of the stories – have an impact on the idea of what it means to be 'Iranian'. The Folktales and Storytellers of Iran explores the key ideas of cultural identity, self-knowledge and understanding, and how these are represented and developed through a rich literary tradition of folklore and storytelling in what was for a long time an oral-based culture.

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I. B. Tauris

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1780766696

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9781780766690

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies

By: Erika Friedl

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Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies

By: Erika Friedl

In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are also 'the voice' of ordinary people, providing a medium to express emotions, opinions and concerns. This book is based on folksongs collected over a 50-year period among the Boir Ahmad tribal people in the Zagros Mountains of West Iran. Erika Friedl has recorded, transcribed and translated more than 600 lyrics from a Lur community, and her analysis of the folksongs provides an intimate portrait of local people's attitudes, attachments, fears and desires. From songs of love, sex and mourning, to lyrics discussing beauty, infatuation and the community's violent tribal history, Friedl's solid understanding of the cultural background, lifestyle and worldview of these people lets her add ethnographic details that illuminate the deep meaning of the texts. In this way, Friedl goes far beyond a translation of words: she sheds light on a culture where beliefs, critical evaluation of circumstances and philosophical tenets are shown to be integral to each song's message. Based on fieldwork that began in 1965, Erika Friedl's research on the folklore in Boir Ahmad represents the best-documented modern folklore compendium on an Iranian tribe. This new book will be important for future generations of scholars, including ethnographers, Iranists, linguists, ethnomusicologists and those researching Persian literature and cultures of the Middle East.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178672278X

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9781786722782

What Lies Behind the Mountains

By: Erika Campbell - Rennie

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What Lies Behind the Mountains

By: Erika Campbell - Rennie

It is 1883 when Magda gives birth to Theresia. Magda’s early death shortens Theresia’s childhood and forces her from one employment to another. Starting in Admont, to Vienna, and Meran, Italy. There, she finds herself alone to give birth to her daughter Anna. WWI means loss of her husband, home, and savings; she makes her decisions by faith. Anna bears three children pre- and during WWII. She loses two. Erika, the only surviving child grows up in the aftermath of WWII Tested and broken she also finds her “center” in the only way she can, through her Christian faith.

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Xlibris Corporation

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145009399X

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The Women of Deh Koh

Lives in an Iranian Village

By: Erika Friedl

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The Women of Deh Koh

Lives in an Iranian Village

By: Erika Friedl

“Masterful . . . absorbing. This finely written book gives us a whole new sense of Iran.”—The Washington Post Book World While doing research in the Iranian village of Deh Koh, Erika Friedl was able to quietly observe and record the cloistered lives of women in one of the strictest of all Muslim societies. In this fascinating book, Friedl recounts these women’s personal stories as they relate the strain of their daily activities, their intricate relationships with men, and their hopes, dreams, and fears. Women of Deh Koh is a rare and vivid look at what life is really like for the women of Iran. “Her intimate understanding of the life and customs of the village has made her confident about conveying her view from the inside. To share this view with us, and to comment quietly and wisely on the scene, is the striking and illuminating achievement of Women of Deh Koh.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Penguin

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0140149937

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Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Theology, Saints, People

By: Erika Friedl

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Theology, Saints, People

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies

By: Erika Friedl

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Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies

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1786732785

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The Women of Deh Koh

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Children of Deh Koh

Young Life in an Iranian Village

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Syracuse University Press

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Fighting for Road Apples

A Memoir

By: Erika C. Stevenson

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Fighting for Road Apples

A Memoir

By: Erika C. Stevenson

Author Erika C. Stevenson was just six years old when, after World War II, soldiers expelled more than three million Sudeten Germans from their ancestral homes in the Sudetenlands of Czechoslovakia. In Fighting for Road Apples, she tells the story of how she was indelibly marked for life as a refugee. In this memoir, she discusses her experiences in bomb shelters; with ethnic cleansing; of enduring a cruel separation from her mother; and of being contained in a stinking boxcar for livestock, condemned for expulsion from her homeland in Bohemia. Intertwined with her family's heritage marked by misfortunes and struggles of survival she narrates the stories of the turbulent, blighted-by-poverty postwar years in Germany. Stevenson describes blithe anecdotes of teen adventures and of falling in love with a foreign student who harbored a few secrets. She also recounts her father's compelling escape from a British POW camp after D-Day and his later incarceration in a notorious Czech concentration camp. A story of challenges and triumphs, Fighting for Road Apples narrates the true story of what ordinary people endured during an extraordinary time.

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iUniverse

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1475938829

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9781475938821

Creatures of Cain

The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

By: Erika Lorraine Milam

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Creatures of Cain

The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

By: Erika Lorraine Milam

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this “killer ape” theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity’s problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations. A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.

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Princeton University Press

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0691185093

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9780691185095

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

By: Erika Hughes

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Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

By: Erika Hughes

Through an examination of children's and youth plays and performances about the Holocaust from Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book offers an entirely new way of looking at the vital role of youth performance in coping with the legacy of historical tragedy. As the first book-length critical examination of this subject, Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance considers plays that are produced by major theatre companies alongside performances written by young authors and pieces taken from the diaries and memoirs of those who experienced the Holocaust as children or adolescents. While youth-focused plays about the Holocaust have been in the repertories of top professional companies throughout the world for decades and continue to be performed in theatres, schools, and community centers, they are often neglected in concentrated and comparative studies of Holocaust theatre. Erika Hughes fills this gap by examining plays (including The Diary of Anne Frank and Ab heure heißt Du Sara), musicals, performances, scripts, a rock concert, a performance on Instagram, and pedagogically-focused works of applied theatre a diverse collection of performances for young audiences that tell the stories of young people who experienced the Holocaust. Adopting Hannah Arendt's notion of natality as a powerful framework, this study examines the ways in which youth-theatre performances make a vital contribution to intergenerational witnessing and the collective memory of the Holocaust.

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255

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350263354

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9781350263352

The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council

By: Erika de Wet

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The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council

By: Erika de Wet

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

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432

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Hart Publishing

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1841134228

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9781841134222

What Lies Behind the Mountains

By: Erika Campbell - Rennie

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Book's by Erika Friedl

Children of Deh Koh

Children of Deh Koh

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

The Folktales and Storytellers of Tribal Iran

The Folktales and Storytellers of Tribal Iran

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

What Lies Behind the Mountains

What Lies Behind the Mountains

The Women of Deh Koh

The Women of Deh Koh

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

The Women of Deh Koh

The Women of Deh Koh

Children of Deh Koh

Children of Deh Koh

Fighting for Road Apples

Fighting for Road Apples

Creatures of Cain

Creatures of Cain

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council

The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council

What Lies Behind the Mountains

What Lies Behind the Mountains

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