Persian carpets : the nation as a transnational commodity /

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings iss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moallem, Minoo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2018]
Series:Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Objects of knowledge, subjects of consumption
  • Transnational orientalia and civilizational commodities
  • The spectacle of labor
  • Nation as a commodity
  • Between carpets and computers.