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Kurdistan on the global stage : kinship, land, and community in Iraq
- Title
- Kurdistan on the global stage : kinship, land, and community in Iraq / Diane E. King.
- Author
- King, Diane E., 1966-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The author describes everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Ba'thist Iraqi government in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The Region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to the rest of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan's towns and villages, she explores the ways that 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. The idea of patrilineal descent influences the meaning of refuge-seeking and migration as well as how identity and place are understood, how women and men interact, and how "politicking" is conducted. In the new Kurdistan, old values may be maintained, reformulated, or questioned. She offers an interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity.
- Subject
- Kurds > Iraq > Politics and government
- Kurds > Ethnic identity
- Kurds > Ethnic identity
- Kurds > Politics and government
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Ethnische Identität
- Soziale Situation
- Kurds > Iraq > Politics and government
- Kurder > sociala aspekter
- Etnicitet
- Politiska förhållanden
- Kurdistān (Iraq) > Politics and government
- Kurdistān (Iraq) > Social conditions
- Iraq
- Iraq > Kurdistān
- Irak
- Kurdistan > Süd
- Kurdistān (Iraq) > Politics and government
- Kurdistān (Iraq) > Social conditions
- Irak > Kurdistan
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Kurdistan glocal -- Fieldwork in a danger zone -- A man on the land : lineages, identity, and place -- Gendered challenges : women navigating patriliny -- Politicking -- Refuge seeking, patriliny, and the global -- Kurdistan in the world.
- ISBN
- 9780813563534
- 0813563534
- 9780813563527
- 0813563526
- 0813563542
- 9780813563541
- 9780813563541 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013010360
- OCLC
- ocn841227377
- 841227377
- SCSB-14417670
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library