Contribution to Book
Ritual and Revolution in Iran
Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-1983
Publisher
Transaction Books
Disciplines
Abstract
Based on participant observation and anthropological fieldwork in an Iranian village (Aliabad") shows the connections between Shia Muslim rituals of Moharram commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Husein and his followers at Karbala, and politics, and espcially the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Chapter of
Political Anthropology Volume II; Culture and Political Change
Editor
Myron J. Aronoff
Citation Information
Hegland, M. (1983). Ritual and Revolution in Iran. In Myron J. Aronoff (Ed.), Political Anthropology Volume II; Culture and Political Change (pp. 75–100). Transaction Books.