Kurdistan on the global stage : kinship, land, and community in Iraq / Diane E. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Diane E., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurdistan--Politics and government.

Kurdistan.

Kurdistan--Social conditions.

Kurds--Iraq--Politics and government.

Kurds.

Iraq.

Politics and government.

Kurds--Ethnic identity.

Kurds--Politics and government.

Political science.

Social history.

Iraq--Kurdistān.

Physical Description:

xiv, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about 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 Bathist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to and from other parts of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan's towns and villages, King explores how 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. Old values maybe maintained, reformulated, or questioned. King offers a sensitive interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity. Honor killings still occur when males believe their female relatives have dishonored their families, and female genital cutting endures. Yet, this is a region where technology has spread and seemingly everyone has a mobile phone. Households may have a startling combination of nonliterate older women and educated young women. New ideas about citizenship coexist with older forms of patronage. King is one of the very few scholars who conducted research in Iraq under difficult conditions during the Saddam Hussein regime. How she was able to work in the midst of danger and in the wake of genocide is woven throughout the stories she tells. Kurdistan on the Global Stage serves as a lesson in field research as well as a valuable ethnography. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Kurdistan Glocal 1

2 Fieldwork in a Danger Zone 41

3 A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place 66

4 Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny 102

5 Politicking 138

6 Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global 172

7 Kurdistan in the World 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813563534

0813563534

9780813563527

0813563526

9780813563541

0813563542

OCLC:

841227377