Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi is a social anthropologist, who worked at UNESCO in Paris from 1977 to 1984. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Germany) and a member of the Competence Network Crossroads Asia. Her research is focused on mobility and development in the Iranian coastal areas of the Persian Gulf and the eastern Provinces of Khorassan.

Introduction
Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi

PART I: FROM FOLKLORE TO ANTHROPOLOGY: THE PASSAGE

Chapter 1. The Contribution of Foreign Anthropologists to Iranology
Ali A. Bulookbashi

Chapter 2. Storytelling as a Constituent of Popular Culture: Folk Narrative Research in Contemporary Iran
Ulrich Marzolph

Chapter 3. Iranian Anthropology - Crossing Boundaries: Influences of Modernization, Social Transformation and Globalization
Mary Elaine Hegland

PART II: VOICES FROM WITHIN: INSTITUTIONS AND PROFESSIONS

Chapter 4. Anthropology in Post-revolutionary Iran
Nematollah Fazeli

Chapter 5. Making and Remaking an Academic Tradition: Towards an Indigenous Anthropology in Iran
Nasser Fakouhi

Chapter 6. Iranian Anthropologists Are Women
Soheila Shahshahani

PART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CONSTRAINTS AND POSSIBILITIES

Chapter 7. Applied Anthropology in Iran?
Jean-Pierre Digard

Chapter 8. Past Experiences and Future Perspectives of an Indigenous Anthropologist on Anthropological Work in Iran
Mohammad Shahbazi

Chapter 9. Anthropological Research in Iran
Lois Beck

Chapter 10. Being from There: Dilemmas of a 'Native Anthropologist'
Ziba Mir-Hosseini

PART IV: PAST AND PRESENT PERSPECTIVES: CHALLENGING THE FUTURE

Chapter 11. Usual Topics: Taboo Themes and New Objects in Iranian Anthropology
Christian Bromberger

Chapter 12. Islamophobia and Malaise in Anthropology
Fariba Adelkhah

Chapter 13. Personal Reflections on Anthropology of and in Iran
Richard Tapper

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Notes on Contributors

Index