Book
Iran
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1946 • Pages:
By: Haas, William S..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Mary L. Bartlett ; 1954
- Field Date
- 1935-1940
- Coverage Date
- 1906-1944
- Coverage Place
- Iran
- Notes
- William S. Haas
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- a 46000962
- LCSH
- Iranians