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The changing status and composition of an Iranian provincial eliteessay 1981 • Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio
Iran • Middle East > Middle East
This document examines the meaning and structure of elite status in provincial Iran and discusses the changes in the status of provincial elites that occurred during the period of 1920-1979 while the Pahlavis were in power. Social histories of two gr...Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian societyarticle 1988 • Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio & Good, Byron J.
Iran • Middle East > Middle East
The Goods examine the culture of sadness that has engulfed revolutionary Iran. The Shi'ite passion play, the TA'ZIEH, with its underlying and highly emotional appeal for social justice, served the Moslem clerics well in bringing about the downfall of...