160 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Series Foreward; Introduction; Chapter 1. Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of Consumption; Chapter 2. Transnational Orientalia and Civilizational Commodities; Chapter 3. The Spectacle of Labor; Chapter 4. Nation As A Commodity; Chapter 5. Between Carpets and Computers; Epilogue
Biography
Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
"Moallem’s astute analysis and the fascinating range of material with which she engages is indeed a creative and effective way to familiarize students with theoretical and methodological concepts in anthropology, cultural studies, political economy, and transnational feminist theory."
--Sima Shakhsari, Jadaliyya
