Book
Iran
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1946 • Pages:
By: Haas, William S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of this source was associated with the Iranian Institute and School for Asiatic Studies in New York in 1943. For five years previous to his arrival in the United States in 1940 he served as adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Education, during which time he traveled widely throughout Iran gathering materials for the National Ethnological Museum which he helped to found in Teheran. This is a general source and as such follows the usual pattern of contemporary studies of Iran: an historical summary, discussions of Islam, Reza Shah and his reforms Anglo-Russian economic and political rivalry with respect to Iran, etc. The value of the source, however, lies in the authors excellent and highly praised analyses of what he calls the 'Persian mind,' and in his delineation of the fundamental structure and function of Persian society. In this respect the chapter on Persian Psychology (pp. 116-136) is expecially useful, although the researcher will find Haas interest in the human bases if Iranian institutions valuable also in the sections on education, property, and political movements.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Chief executive
- External relations
- General character of religion
- Theological systems
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Mary L. Bartlett ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1906-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- William S. Haas
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 46000962
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians