Aesthetics And The Art Of Living In The

Name: Aesthetics And The Art Of Living In The
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of IranAuthor(s): Erika Friedl\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399536745, 978-1399536745\nSynopsis\nIn this rare approach to half a century of ethnographic study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, the emotional and judgmental reactions local people have to conventions and customs of their own culture is in sharp focus. The book rests on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group over five decades in a remote mountain area in Iran. The effects of hard work, poverty, and lifestyle changes over the past decades have moulded people's likes and dislikes, their comforts and pains and what they deem beautiful and ugly. In the aesthetics of everyday life, social structures, traditions and local habits provide many choices for behaviour and experiences, and also for the feelings the various options allow o.