Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings iss...

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1. Verfasser:	Moallem, Minoo (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Routledge, a Taylor & Francis Group 2018
Schriftenreihe:	The Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology
Schlagworte:	Rugs, Persian Carpets / Iran Orientalism
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a commodity which crosses the boundaries of private and public, religious and secular, culture and economy, modern and traditional, home and diaspora, and art and commodity to tell the story of transnational interconnectivity. Bringing transnational feminist cultural studies, ethnography, and network studies within the same frame of reference, this book sheds light on Orientalia as civilizational objects that emerged as commodities in the encounter between the West and the many directly or indirectly colonized Middle Eastern and West Asian cultures, focusing on the specific example of Persian carpets as some of the most extensively valued and traded objects since colonial modernity
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9781315266435 1315266431 9781351970099 1351970097 9781351970075 1351970070 9781351970082 1351970089