| #1121918 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2006-05-31 | 2006-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.76 x5.50l,.85 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Warring Souls:Youth, Media, and Martyrdom|By HRS|Anthropology, History, Fiction and Politics all come together in this tour de force. Roxanne Varzi opens the door to a society which for most of us is only knowable through the images on TV and in the papers. Iran, Tehran and then finally the inner circle of Tehran's middle-upper class youth (the first generation born in the||
“Warring Souls is an outstanding and nuanced addition to the literature on contemporary Iranian culture, media, and society.”—Hamid Naficy, author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic R...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran | Roxanne Varzi. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
