Narges Erami
Biographic Data
| ID | 202953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Narges Erami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Narges |
| FAMILY NAME | Erami |
| SIGNATURE | ERAMI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Of ladders and looms: Moving through Walter Benjamin's 'Storyteller
In this article I take a closer look at Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Storyteller' by connecting the craft of carpet weaving to storytelling. I reveal that Benjamin has encoded a ladder in his essay through his seemingly fragmentary ruminations or 'philosophical observations'. I attempt a genealogy of 'The Storyteller', where I recognize that the ladder is an inspiration from Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbala, where the cycle of life is reali…
When ties don't bind: Smuggling effects, bazaars and regulatory regimes in postrevolutionary Iran
This paper examines how participation in smuggling restructures existing commercial regulatory systems and subjectivities. It does so through an analysis of the illicit commercial practices that mushroomed in postrevolutionary Iran and the ambivalent participation of established merchants (bazaaris) in the import and export of commodities through these circuits during the 1979–2005 era. Following two independent research projects on the Tehran an…
When ties don't bind: Smuggling effects, bazaars and regulatory regimes in postrevolutionary Iran
This paper examines how participation in smuggling restructures existing commercial regulatory systems and subjectivities. It does so through an analysis of the illicit commercial practices that mushroomed in postrevolutionary Iran and the ambivalent participation of established merchants (bazaaris) in the import and export of commodities through these circuits during the 1979–2005 era. Following two independent research projects on the Tehran an…
Of ladders and looms: Moving through Walter Benjamin's 'Storyteller
In this article I take a closer look at Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Storyteller' by connecting the craft of carpet weaving to storytelling. I reveal that Benjamin has encoded a ladder in his essay through his seemingly fragmentary ruminations or 'philosophical observations'. I attempt a genealogy of 'The Storyteller', where I recognize that the ladder is an inspiration from Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbala, where the cycle of life is reali…
Of ladders and looms: Moving through Walter Benjamin's 'Storyteller
In this article I take a closer look at Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Storyteller' by connecting the craft of carpet weaving to storytelling. I reveal that Benjamin has encoded a ladder in his essay through his seemingly fragmentary ruminations or 'philosophical observations'. I attempt a genealogy of 'The Storyteller', where I recognize that the ladder is an inspiration from Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbala, where the cycle of life is reali…
When ties don't bind: Smuggling effects, bazaars and regulatory regimes in postrevolutionary Iran
This paper examines how participation in smuggling restructures existing commercial regulatory systems and subjectivities. It does so through an analysis of the illicit commercial practices that mushroomed in postrevolutionary Iran and the ambivalent participation of established merchants (bazaaris) in the import and export of commodities through these circuits during the 1979–2005 era. Following two independent research projects on the Tehran an…
Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works)