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Art Against Dictatorship
Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network ...
Activists in Office
Thousands of Kurdish politician-activists have been prosecuted and imprisoned, and hundreds have been murdered for espousing Kurdish political and cultural rights over the past twenty years. The risks are high, yet Pro-Kurdish political parties have made significant gains, as resources afforded by the political system have allowed them to challenge state rhetoric and policies to exercise power at the municipal level, which has helped legitimize and advance the pro-Kurdish movement. Activists in Office examines how these parties, while sharing many of the goals expressed by armed Kurdish groups, are using the legal political system to promote their highly contentious Kurdish national agenda in the face of a violent, repressive state. Nicole F. Watts sheds light not only on the particular situation of Kurds in Turkey, but also on the challenges, risks, and potential benefits for comparable movements operating in less-than-fully democratic contexts. The book is a result of more than ten years of research conducted in Turkey and in Europe, and it draws on a wide array of sources, including Turkish electoral data, memoirs, court records, and interviews.
From Daēnā to Dîn
Die Festschrift enthalt insgesamt 30 Beitrage zu verschiedenen Bereichen der Iranistik. Es handelt sich sowohl um Artikel zu Forschungsschwerpunkten von Ph. G. Kreyenbroek, wie dem Zoroastrismus, der kurdischen Literatur und Religion, insbesondere die der Yeziden und Ahl-e Haqq, aber auch um Beitrage zur iranischen Philologie, der Zeit der Achameniden sowie der Geschichte und Kultur Irans in islamischer Zeit. Die Aufsatze umfassen so unterschiedliche Themen wie z.B. Sinn und Zweck von Ritualen aus der Sicht von Parsi-Priestern, eine Gegenuberstellung von Tawusi Melek und dem Pfau in der Mandaischen Tradition, Zeitkonzepte des Yezidismus, einen Uberblick uber die persische Presse der letzten Jahrzehnte, judaische Gesandte im Achamenidenreich, Ohrmazd in der soghdischen Uberlieferung, Modalitatstypologie im Kurdischen und Hawrami oder baktrische Demonstrativpronomina. Ein Uberblick uber das Werk Kreyenbroeks sowie ein Verzeichnis seiner Schriften erganzen den Band.
"God First and Last". Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran
The Yaresan or Ahl-e Haqq are a relatively large minority group whose religion originates in the border regions between Iran and Iraq. As members of traditional Yaresan communities are becoming more visible in the West, both as diaspora groups and in academia, there is an increasing demand for reliable information about their background. Academic interest is also growing. Recent scholarly publications, however, tend to assume a fundamental knowledge of the Yaresan tradition, which is not easy to glean from existing sources. This is made more complicated by the very real differences between the European world view and that of traditional Yarsanism. For that reason and because music plays an unusually prominent role in Yaresan observance, it was decided to combine the authors' work on religious traditions and music respectively in two volumes. In doing so the religious realities of the traditional Yaresan of the Guran region is communicated by quoting extensively from interviews with community members. The first volume also offers a survey of other religious traditions that are thought to have been influential in shaping modern Yarsanism.
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Mündliche Literatur der Kurden in den Regionen Botan und Hekarî
Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der mundlichen Literatur der Kurden in den Regionen Hekari und Botan. Die Forschungen uber die kurdische mundliche Literatur sind - trotz zahlenmassiger Zunahme in den letzten Jahren - unzureichend; abgesehen von wenigen Ausnahmen, die zumeist religiose Minderheiten betreffen, fehlen insbesondere ausfuhrliche Arbeiten uber die Traditionen bestimmter Kulturraume. Aus diesem Grunde besitzt diese Untersuchung auch den Status einer Pionierarbeit. Bis zur Verbreitung der audiovisuellen Medien in Kurdistan waren die traditionellen Formen der Uberlieferung fur die mundliche Literatur und Kunste ausschlaggebend. Der franzosische Reisende Pierre Amedee Jaubert beobac...
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Based on interviews and archival research, this book reveals the connections and dialogue between the religious minorities living in post-ISIS Iraq
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Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien
Kurdologie bzw. kurdische Studien meint die systematische Auseinandersetzung mit sozialwissenschaftlichen ebenso wie mit philologischen, historischen und künstlerischen Fragestellungen. Sie umfasst die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Themen, die das historische kurdische Siedlungsgebiet (Kurdistan) sowie die kurdische Migration, insbesondere nach Europa, betreffen. Das von der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kurdologie / Europäisches Zentrum für Das von der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kurdologie / Europäisches Zentrum für Kurdische Studien herausgegebene Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien bietet eine interdisziplinäre und internationale Plattform, die wissensch...
The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation
The Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.
