Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran

by Erika Friedl

In this rare approach to half a century of ethnographic study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, the emotional and judgmental reactions local people have to conventions and customs of their own culture is in sharp focus. The book rests on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group over five decades in a remote mountain area in Iran. The effects of hard work, poverty, and lifestyle changes over the past decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399536737
• ISBN13: 9781399536738
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages