Erika Friedl
Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran
Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran
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The book explores the emotional and judgmental reactions of local people to their culture's conventions and customs, based on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group in a remote mountain area of Iran over five decades. It highlights how hard work, poverty, and lifestyle changes have shaped their likes and dislikes, comforts and pains, and what they deem beautiful and ugly. The focus on the cognitive and emotive side of culture provides insights into how rural/transhumant people evaluate their life conditions, relationships, and aesthetic dimension of their lives over a period of rapid change.
Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The book "The Aesthetics of Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Study of a Pastoral Ethnic Community in the Hinterland of Iran" presents a unique approach to the study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, spanning over half a century of ethnographic research. The book draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group in a remote mountain area of Iran over five decades. Through this study, the authors explore the emotional and judgmental reactions of local people to the conventions and customs of their own culture. The book highlights the impact of hard work, poverty, and lifestyle changes on people's likes and dislikes, comforts and pains, and their perception of beauty and ugliness. The authors argue that the aesthetics of everyday life, social structures, traditions, and local habits provide numerous choices for behavior and experiences, as well as for the feelings that these options allow or even provoke. By focusing on the cognitive and emotive side of culture, the book offers insights into how rural/transhumant people evaluate their life conditions, relationships with others, nature, time, religion, and the aesthetic dimension of their lives during a period of rapid change.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399536738
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