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Negotiating the salientization of identity: Hindu? Indian? American?
Abstract This chapter starts by briefly decluttering how religion is defined through western theistic attributes, then explores students’ Hindu experiences while centering a counter socio‐religio‐cultural narrative of lived religion. I look into systemic institutional misalignments stemming from white Christian supremacy and lastly, aspects of student ...
Gaurav Harshe
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Tourism in Iran: central control and indigeneity [PDF]
Iran has a long history and tradition of accommodating visitors and travellers, as well as having a great number of minority cultures within its borders, reflecting its geographic location astride some of the major trade routes in the Middle East ...
Baum, T.G. +2 more
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A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi +4 more
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Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre
Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen +2 more
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AGING COEFFICIENT IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN IRAN [PDF]
Aging Coefficient (AC), or aged–child ratio, is the number of individuals aged 65 years and over, divided by the number of individuals aged 0-14, multiplied by 100.
D.D. Farhud +3 more
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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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ИРАНДАҒЫ НАУРЫЗДЫҢ ТОЙЛАНУЫ МЕН ӘДЕТ-ҒҰРЫПТАРЫ
Данная статья характеризует отдельные детали при праздновании наурыза в Иране. В этой статье затраги- ваются некоторые особенности обычаев и традиций иранского нового года.
Е. Қ. Қасабекова
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This research aims to analyze the place of Zoroastrian tourist attractions in developing the Iran's tourist industry. For this purpose, indicators were extracted by using a library method, mix method and consult with experts.
Maysam Shafiee RoodPoshti +3 more
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Oral character of middle Persian literature : new perspective [PDF]
From the very beginning oral transmission of texts played a significant role in the Iranian world. It became a main topic of several works by Bailey (1943), Boyce (1957, 1968), de Menasce (1973), Skjærvø (1384hš), Smurzyński (2006) and Tafazzoli ...
Kłagisz, Mateusz
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THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NESTORIANS AND MONOPHYSITES: BARSAUMA’S ACTIVITY [PDF]
Nestorianism antagonized the official Byzantine church, spreading out from Mesopotamia. It was the creed of the merchants, the class who sought independency and confronted Zoroastrianism in Iran.
HOVHANNES KHORIKYAN
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