essay
Minority-state relations in contemporary Iran
state, religion, and ethinic politics : Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan • [syracuse, N.y.] • Published In 1986 • Pages: 167-197
By: Higgins, Patricia J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Higgins examines the fate of minority groups under two regimes, the Pahlavi (1906-1978) and Islamic (1978-1979) Republics. She focusses on three main groups: Baha'is, Kurds, and Azerbaijanis. The constitutions of both regimes are similar in granting individual rights and equality of all citizens before the law. Both republics are highly centralized states. Only the Zoroastrian, Jewish, Armenian, and Assyrian Iranians were guaranteed religious freedeom and limited autonomy. The major difference between the regimes is how they constituted national unity and identity: Persian language and history vs. Shi'ism. Higgins discusses how fortunes of minority groups changed from one regime to the next and the response of minority groups to shift their ethnic markers in order to better position themselves in the new state.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Citizenship
- Form and rules of government
- Political movements
- Revolution
- Religious denominations
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1906-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia J. Higgins
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86006048
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians