Research Catalog

Title

The Chaldeans : politics and identity in Iraq and the American diaspora / Yasmeen Hanoosh.

Author

Hanoosh, Yasmeen S.

Publication

• London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xv, 318 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as 'Chaldean' by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands of assimilation in the US, together with increased hostility and sectarian violence in Iraq, gave rise to a complex and transnational identity. Faced with Islamophobia in the US, Chaldeans were at pains to emphasize a Christian identity, and appropriated the ancient, pre-Islamic history of their namesake as a means of distinction between them and other immigrants from Arab lands. In this, the first ethnographic history of the modern Chaldeans, Yasmeen Hanoosh explores these ancient-modern inflections in contemporary Chaldean identity discourses, the use of history as a collective commodity for developing and sustaining a positive community image in the present, and the use of language revival and monumental symbolism to reclaim association with Christian and pre-Christian traditions"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Library of modern Middle East studies

Uniform Title

Library of modern Middle East studies.

Alternative Title

Politics and identity in Iraq and the American diaspora

Subject

• Chaldean Catholics > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-305) and index.

Contents

On the politics of appellation : the making of the modern Chaldeans -- Archaeology, philology and mission : the modern history of ancient Chaldean history -- Arab/Chaldean/Assyrian distinctions : political survival in the new nation state of Iraq -- From religious to ethnic minority : between Iraq and America in the twentieth century -- Family, marriage and ethnic economy : a transnational social field perspective -- The modern Chaldean church : global circuits of ecclesial power -- A safe haven dream : home between Detroit and the Nineveh plains -- Chaldeanness : the official narrative and its changing displays -- Epilogue: Centre and peripheries of Chaldeanness in the twilight of the nation state -- Appendix: Appellations and languages.

Call Number

JFE 19-8513

ISBN

• 9781788313698
• 1788313690

OCLC

1066198069

Author

Hanoosh, Yasmeen S., author.

Title

The Chaldeans : politics and identity in Iraq and the American diaspora / Yasmeen Hanoosh.

Publisher

London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of modern Middle East studies

Library of modern Middle East studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-305) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8513