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This collection is intended to fulfill a gap in research on memory in Iranian studies, which editors Allison (Kurdish studies, U. of Exeter, England) and Kreyenbroek (Iranian studies, Georg-August U. Gottingen, Germany) feel has not received adequate attention, particularly in comparison to work on Turkey, the Soviet Union, Palestine, Lebanon, and elsewhere. They have chosen the term "Iranian societies" to allow for the inclusion of Armenians, Kurds in Turkey, Ottoman Turks, and others whose cultures are closely linked to the Iranian world, but would not necessarily be considered to fit within a strict definition of "Iranian society." Twelve papers explore the ways in which the past is remembered through folklore, music, monuments, spatial organization and city planning, the construction of the nation-state, and personal narratives of trauma. Examples of specific topics include: storytelling, history, and communal memory in pre-Islamic Iran; religion and oral history in the origin myth of the Yezidis; memory and social structures in Kurdish society; the pre-Islamic past as part of Iranian national memory; Armenian and Kurdish lullabies in present-day Istanbul; recollecting the resettlement of the population of the Yaghnob valley of Turkmenistan; and war, culture, structural violence, and oral historical representations. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
