Kurdistan on the Global Stage

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Éditeur : Rutgers University Press	Date & Lieu : 2005, New Brunswick
Préface :	Pages : 270
Traduction :	ISBN : 978-0-8135-6353-4
Langue : Anglais	Format : 135x230 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Gen. Kin. Kur. N° 5270	Thème : Général

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Kurdistan on the Global Stage Diane E. King Rutgers University “A rare account by an anthropologist of uncommon courage, this unique analysis of the rapid transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East.” —Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Husseins Bathist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to and from other parts of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan’s towns and villages, King explores how residents connect socially, particularly through patron-client relationships and as people belonging to gendered categories. She emphasizes that patrilineages (male ancestral lines) seem well adapted to the Middle Eastern modern stage and vice versa. Old values may be maintained, reformulated, or questioned. King offers a sensitive interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity. Honor killings still occur when males believe their female relatives have dishonored their families, and female genital cutting endures. Yet, this is a region where technology has spread and seemingly everyone has a mobile phone. Households may have a startling combination of nonliterate older women and educated young women. New ideas about citizenship coexist with older forms of patronage. King is one of the very few scholars who conducted research in Iraq under difficult conditions during the Saddam Hussein regime. How she was able to work in the midst of danger and in the wake of genocide is woven throughout the stories she tells. Kurdistan on the Global Stage serves as a lesson in field research as well as a valuable ethnography. Diane E. King is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the editor of the volume Middle Eastern Belongings (2010; paperback edition, 2013) as well as scholarly articles and journalism on collective identity, kinship and descent, gender, and the state. Since 1995, she has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Her Ph. D. (2000) is from Washington State University. She previously taught at Washington State University and the American University of Beirut. Her research has been supported by her employers and by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Foundation (of Brown University), and the British Council.


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Diane E. King Kurdistan on the Global Stage Rutgers University Rutgers University Press Anthropology - Human Rights - Middle Eastern Studies Kurdistan on the Global Stage Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq Diane E. King Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data King, Diane E., 1966- Kurdistan on the global stage: kinship, land, and community in Iraq / Diane E. King. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8135-6353-4 (hardcover: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-6352-7 pbk.: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-6354-1 (e-book) 1. Kurdistan (Iraq)—Politics and government. 2. Kurdistan (Iraq)—Social conditions. 3. Kurds—Iraq—Politics and government. 4. Kurds—Ethnic identity. I. Title. DS7o.8.K8I<55 2014 956.7'2—dc23 2013010360 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. “Candy Shop,” Words and Music by Curtis Jackson and Scott Storch. Copyright © 2005 50 Cent Music Publishing, Scott Storch Music, and Tvt Music Inc. All Rights for 50 Cent Music Publishing Controlled and Administered by Universal Music Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Reprinted with Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation. Copyright © 2014 by Diane E. King All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our website: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America For the atrocity and war survivors of Kurdistan and Iraq. May they find not only safety, but a just abundance. Cover photograph: Near Savra, looking east at the Barzan Valley and the Great Zab River, Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, October 18, 1998. Photo by the author. Cover design by Eve Siegel