Sekandar Amanolahi

The Role of Religion and Supernaturalism in Contemporary Iran

An Anthropological View



This book by a noted expert on religious life in modern and contemporary Iran examines the changing role of traditional and modern beliefs in public life. Amanolohi is most recently co-author with Frank Hole of Tribal Pastoralists in Transition: The Baharvand of Luristan, Iran (University of Michigan Press, 2021). He is professor emeritus of Anthropology at Shiraz University in Iran. He earned his doctorate from Rice University, where his dissertation was an ethnographic study of the Baharvand tribe. Through his pioneering career, focused on tribes and peoples of the central and southern Zagros mountains of Iran, he has specialized in Lurs culture and Luristan. He is also author of Tales from Luristan (Harvard University Press, 1986), praised as a "unique volume that will be of great interest to students of the folklore, linguistics and customrs of the inhabitants of the center of Luristan."





also by Sekandar Amanolahi:

with Frank Hole:

Tribal Pastoralists in Transition: The Baharvand of Luristan, Iran
University of Michigan Press, 2021


      

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