M E Hegland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M E Hegland |
| GIVEN NAMES | M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hegland |
| SIGNATURE | HEGLAND M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5837-0018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reports
Edith Szanto, Twelver Shi'i Self-Flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Advances in the Study of Islam series. 253 pp., 8 ills, ISBN: 978-1-3995-4828-1 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-3995-4829-8 (web PDF), ISBN: 978-1-3995-4830-4 (epub), all $110.00
Reports
Paul Anderson, Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo (New York: Cornell University Press, 2023). 204 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5017-6830-9, $32.95. Julie Peteet, The Hammam through Time and Space (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2024), Gender, Culture and Politics series. 368 pp., 18 ills, $49.95, ISBN: 9780815638322 (paperback), $110.00, ISBN: 9780815638315 (hardcover), $49.95, ISBN: 9780815657040 (eBook). Mag…
Loeffler, Reinhold, and Kati Loeffler
Reports
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran–Iraq War (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2021), 457 pp. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Commission on the Middle East Conference ‘The Middle East from the Margin’, 7–9 September 2022, Istanbul, Türkiye
Folktales, Folksongs, and Proverbs in Lur/Iranian Daily Life
Erika Friedl, Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English, Collected, Transcribed, Translated and Commented on by Erika Friedl (Dortmund, Germany:Verlag für Orientkunde, 2007); Folktales and Storytellers of Iran: Culture, Ethos, and Identity (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014); Warm Hearts and Sharp Tongues: Life in 555 Proverbs from the Zagros Mountains of Iran (Vienna: New Academic Press, 2015); and Folksongs from…
Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations
Despite their multifaceted participation and their suffering in many ways, women have been relatively neglected in scholarship about war and conflict, all the more so in the Middle East and North Africa. The guiding assumption that women are part of the home and private world and not active in the public world of politics and conflict, especially in the MENA area, has long exacerbated the ways in which women’s participation has been ignored. Furt…
Field Research in a Revolutionary Setting
Academic trends and developments in the research field have profoundly affected my choice of research topics. When I conducted field research for an anthropology PhD in Iran from June 1978 to December 1979, academic interests at the time and the revolutionary upheaval in Iran channeled my work. I focused on “Aliabad” villagers’ political culture, including women’s activities and marriage ties, and how their political culture influenced their view…
Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia
Middle Eastern women are now all the more provoked into developing stances and philosophies of their own about Islam. Muslim clerics and community males have interpreted Islam for women and informed them of their makeup and responsibilities as Muslim women. Fundamentalism and Islamism provide good excuses to more forcefully impose local culture and customs, such as female-derived honor and shame. Middle Eastern Muslim women are more often attendi…
Report
Zahra Tizro, Domestic Violence in Iran: Women, Marriage and Islam (New York: Routledge, 2012)
Popular Religious Practices and Perceptions in Some Shi’i Muslim Communities
Bridget Blomfield, The Language of Tears, My Journey into the World of Shi’i Muslim Women (Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 2015) Diane D’Souza, Partners of Zaynab: A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014) Karen G. Ruffle, Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
Political Roles of Aliabad Women
Until the mid-1960s, public and political relations in the Iranian village of Aliabad were conducted through personal relationships. 'fhe government's hand had not spread into rural areas: no outside political authority or police force controlled village politics. The people themselves competed for political power and were in charge of maintaining stability. Competition between groups resulted in violence and insecurity. One had to tie personal r…
Afro-Iranian Lives
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Reports
Days of Revolution
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PUBLICATIONS Coburn, Noah (2011), Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047- 7672-1. Heath, Jennifer and Zahedi, Ashraf (eds.) (2009), Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women (Berkeley: University of California Press). 393 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26186-0. Barfield, Thomas (2010), Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton, NJ: P…
Reports
Aliabad of Shiraz
Anthropological participant observation, in-depth, open-ended interviewing and oral history reveal aspects of social change and modernisation that have taken place in Aliabad, Iran, over more than half a century. These developments have transpired in interplay with economic, political and cultural processes. As a result of economic transformation from sharecropping and trading to urban-style jobs, and due to outside influences as a consequence of…
Tajik Male Labour Migration and Women Left Behind
Poverty and unemployment send at least one million Tajiks to Russia for low-level labour migration. The migrants, mainly male, leave women behind to manage on their own. As a result, women have to work all the harder to try to feed themselves and their children, often against great odds. Male migrant labour to Russia, along with unemployment, alcoholism, drug dependency and other problems, also results in a shortage of marriageable males. This is…
Richard Antoun, 1932-2009
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Educating Young Women
Anthropological participant observation during two different periods (1978–79 and 2003–08) documents dramatic change in gender identity and expectations in an Iranian village. While patriarchal definitions of females and their places and on-the-ground social conditions restricted female agency and kept women and girls under the authority of male supervisors 30 years ago, recent years have witnessed growing opportunities for females. Now most girl…
Reports
Reports
Modernisation and Social Change
Anthropological field research in Iran, mainly in the village of Aliabad and in nearby Shiraz in south-west Iran, has documented radical social, cultural, religious and economic change over the last 28 years. Increasing emphasis on the nuclear rather than the extended family and pressures for geographic and social mobility have profoundly influenced the lives of the elderly. The traditional family system of support for elders - with regard to emo…
Methods Applied
In the 1970s social cultural anthropology in Iran was beginning to flourish. However, with the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Islamic Republic of Iran, fieldwork in Iran became extremely problematic. Foreign anthropologists faced formidable obstacles to obtaining visas and permits. Anthropologists working inside Iran were also discouraged from anthropological participant observation. As a result, during the post revolutionary perio…
Iranians in Texas
Flagellation and Fundamentalism
In addition to the expansion of their ritual involvement resulting from the growth of religious transnationalism, Shi'a Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan have increasingly faced restrictive ritual constructions of femininity and fundamentalist ideology. In mourning rituals they have encountered symbolic complexes that reinforce men's role as repositories of holy power and succor and remind them of their own unworthiness to shed blood on behalf o…
Tajik Male Labour Migration and Women Left Behind
Poverty and unemployment send at least one million Tajiks to Russia for low-level labour migration. The migrants, mainly male, leave women behind to manage on their own. As a result, women have to work all the harder to try to feed themselves and their children, often against great odds. Male migrant labour to Russia, along with unemployment, alcoholism, drug dependency and other problems, also results in a shortage of marriageable males. This is…
Women in Muslim Societies
Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi. eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 310 pp
Shi'a Women's Rituals in Northwest Pakistan
Contained by strong bonds with family, religious community, and Shi'a spirituality, Shi'a Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan did not overtly protest strict gender rules. Rather, they resisted the phallocentric messages in ritual symbolism and sermons through ritual performance. They redefined ritual meanings by applying them to their own purposes. Their recitation, chanting, preaching, self-flagellation, repertoire of chants, administration, and …
Afro-Iranian Lives
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Aliabad of Shiraz
Anthropological participant observation, in-depth, open-ended interviewing and oral history reveal aspects of social change and modernisation that have taken place in Aliabad, Iran, over more than half a century. These developments have transpired in interplay with economic, political and cultural processes. As a result of economic transformation from sharecropping and trading to urban-style jobs, and due to outside influences as a consequence of…
Educating Young Women
Anthropological participant observation during two different periods (1978–79 and 2003–08) documents dramatic change in gender identity and expectations in an Iranian village. While patriarchal definitions of females and their places and on-the-ground social conditions restricted female agency and kept women and girls under the authority of male supervisors 30 years ago, recent years have witnessed growing opportunities for females. Now most girl…
Methods Applied
In the 1970s social cultural anthropology in Iran was beginning to flourish. However, with the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Islamic Republic of Iran, fieldwork in Iran became extremely problematic. Foreign anthropologists faced formidable obstacles to obtaining visas and permits. Anthropologists working inside Iran were also discouraged from anthropological participant observation. As a result, during the post revolutionary perio…
Zip In and Zip Out Fieldwork
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Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations
Despite their multifaceted participation and their suffering in many ways, women have been relatively neglected in scholarship about war and conflict, all the more so in the Middle East and North Africa. The guiding assumption that women are part of the home and private world and not active in the public world of politics and conflict, especially in the MENA area, has long exacerbated the ways in which women’s participation has been ignored. Furt…
Women and Revolution in Iran
Political Roles of Iranian Village Women
Masses of Iranian women, many of them "traditional," relatively uneducated and from the lower classes, were politically quite active in the Iranian Revolution. Many observers assume this to be without precedent. There is, however, a tradition of political participation and struggle in community politics by women, as the case of the village of Aliabad illustrates. Women's activities, roles and characteristics in local politics were similar to thos…
Women and the Iranian Revolution
Islam in Practice
The Power Paradox in Muslim Women's Majales
During revolutions, rebellions, and movements, women are often called on to serve contradictory roles. They are asked to perform workpolitical, communicative, networking, recruiting, military, manual - that generally goes beyond the society's usual gender restrictions. At the same time, women serve as symbols of movement identity, unity, commitment, and righteous entitlement. To fit into this idealized symbolic image, individual women must fulfil…
Flagellation and Fundamentalism
In addition to the expansion of their ritual involvement resulting from the growth of religious transnationalism, Shi'a Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan have increasingly faced restrictive ritual constructions of femininity and fundamentalist ideology. In mourning rituals they have encountered symbolic complexes that reinforce men's role as repositories of holy power and succor and remind them of their own unworthiness to shed blood on behalf o…
The Shiites
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Women in Muslim Societies
Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi. eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 310 pp
Middle East Section
Shi'a Women's Rituals in Northwest Pakistan
Contained by strong bonds with family, religious community, and Shi'a spirituality, Shi'a Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan did not overtly protest strict gender rules. Rather, they resisted the phallocentric messages in ritual symbolism and sermons through ritual performance. They redefined ritual meanings by applying them to their own purposes. Their recitation, chanting, preaching, self-flagellation, repertoire of chants, administration, and …
Voices from Iran
Book Review| May 01 2004 Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women Mahnaz Kousha. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 244. Mary Elaine Hegland Mary Elaine Hegland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 286–289. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-286 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supp…
Zip In and Zip Out Fieldwork
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Women in the Middle East
Methods Applied
In the 1970s social cultural anthropology in Iran was beginning to flourish. However, with the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Islamic Republic of Iran, fieldwork in Iran became extremely problematic. Foreign anthropologists faced formidable obstacles to obtaining visas and permits. Anthropologists working inside Iran were also discouraged from anthropological participant observation. As a result, during the post revolutionary perio…
Reports
Modernisation and Social Change
Anthropological field research in Iran, mainly in the village of Aliabad and in nearby Shiraz in south-west Iran, has documented radical social, cultural, religious and economic change over the last 28 years. Increasing emphasis on the nuclear rather than the extended family and pressures for geographic and social mobility have profoundly influenced the lives of the elderly. The traditional family system of support for elders - with regard to emo…
Reports
Richard Antoun, 1932-2009
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Educating Young Women
Anthropological participant observation during two different periods (1978–79 and 2003–08) documents dramatic change in gender identity and expectations in an Iranian village. While patriarchal definitions of females and their places and on-the-ground social conditions restricted female agency and kept women and girls under the authority of male supervisors 30 years ago, recent years have witnessed growing opportunities for females. Now most girl…
Tajik Male Labour Migration and Women Left Behind
Poverty and unemployment send at least one million Tajiks to Russia for low-level labour migration. The migrants, mainly male, leave women behind to manage on their own. As a result, women have to work all the harder to try to feed themselves and their children, often against great odds. Male migrant labour to Russia, along with unemployment, alcoholism, drug dependency and other problems, also results in a shortage of marriageable males. This is…
Aliabad of Shiraz
Anthropological participant observation, in-depth, open-ended interviewing and oral history reveal aspects of social change and modernisation that have taken place in Aliabad, Iran, over more than half a century. These developments have transpired in interplay with economic, political and cultural processes. As a result of economic transformation from sharecropping and trading to urban-style jobs, and due to outside influences as a consequence of…
Reports
PUBLICATIONS Coburn, Noah (2011), Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047- 7672-1. Heath, Jennifer and Zahedi, Ashraf (eds.) (2009), Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women (Berkeley: University of California Press). 393 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26186-0. Barfield, Thomas (2010), Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton, NJ: P…
Reports
Days of Revolution
Reports
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