July 31, 2007

Anthropology and Islam (call for paper)

This announcement is a call for papers for the 16th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) in Kunming, Yunnan, China on 15-23th July 2008. The session will be on Anthropology and Islam with three panels focusing on:

Visual Anthropology in Muslim Societies: Problematics and Methodologies
Death and Dying in Muslim [...]

July 13, 2007

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb: A Filmmaker from Iran

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb was born in 1971 in the city of Kerman in Iran. He began and created his artistic life between the years of 1992-95 in University of Art (Mojtame’-e Daneshgāhiyeh Honar) in Tehran during preparation of his BA degree in Visual Art and Handicrafts. University of Art as the first intellectual and modern Art [...]

June 21, 2007

Bakhtiari Nomads, Khuzestan, Iran


June 21, 2007

On-line Iranian Anthropological and Documentary Film Archive and Database

On-line Iranian Anthropological and Documentary Film Archive and Database

Society for Iranian Anthropology, SIRA (www.anthropology-iran.org) with the collaboration of Ethnodoc create jointly a new online database and archive for Iranian anthropological and documentary films.

We accept anthropological and documentary films (regarding Iran) made by academic scholars and independent filmmakers who trained in anthropology and cinematography. But [...]