Rose Wellman
Biographic Data
| ID | 94101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rose Wellman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Wellman |
| SIGNATURE | WELLMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3552-4651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sacred as Secular
Journal Article Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR Get access Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR. Montreal, Canada: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2021, 264 234 pp.; $39.95 (paperback). Rose Wellman Rose Wellman University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Commemorations and outreach
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, spurring dramatic changes in public health policies, travel between countries, and (trans)national economies, as well as in religious and political institutions. In the United States, in particular, the pandemic provoked and revealed an increasingly fraught relationship between scientific, religious, and political sources of informatio…
Reports
Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm (eds), Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (London: Routledge, 2021), 213 pp. Erika Friedl, Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran: Theology, Saints, People (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021), xix + 178 pp
The Healthy Dearborn coalition
Healthy Dearborn (HD), in Dearborn, Michigan, has a mission to ensure everyone has access to healthy foods, health care and opportunities for active living. HD, a partnership between a health care system, city government, schools and 550+ community members, is guided by a steering committee and research team. We describe the role of the research team in shaping HD’s work and city policy. The University of Michigan–Dearborn, with other universitie…
Feeding Iran
In a Basiji Kitchen
This article explores the political life of jello, or zheleh, among Basiji Shi‘i families in the contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the inception of the 1979 Constitution, Islamic laws concerning halal food, drink, and culinary etiquette have been heavily emphasized by state policy makers. This article focuses on jello, a popular gelatin dessert among state supporting Shi‘i families (here members of the Basij, Iran's paramilitary organi…
Almost Mahram’
This article explores how an American anthropologist navigated the complicated rules of gender avoidance and veiling while living in the home of Iranian state supporters (or members of the Basij, Iran’s paramilitary organisation) in a provincial town in Fars Province. I argue that mahram is configured and activated not only by the dictums of Islamic law, but also according to contexts such as living circumstances, interpersonal trust and town pol…
Substance, Spirit, and Sociality Among Shi‘i Muslims in Iran
This chapter draws from ethnographic research in the Fars Province of Iran to explore the dynamic interplay of kinship and piety for an extended family of Shi‘i Muslims. Wellman examines how kinship is constituted, not only through idioms of blood, milk, and contract as found in Islamic inheritance law, but also through everyday and ritual acts such as prayer, sharing food, and visiting. In focusing on the sacred and strategic aspects of kinship …
New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
Edith Turner
Sacralizing kinship, naturalizing the nation
In Iran, ideas and practices of the family are integral to religious nation-making. State elites and supporters (here members of the Basij, Iran's paramilitary organization) tie the blood of kinship to the blood and sacrifice of Iran-Iraq War martyrs. They harness blood's relational and sacred properties in museum displays and commemorations to delineate and sanctify an Islamic nation composed of pure, kindred citizens. Food has similar efficacy:…
Regenerating the Islamic Republic
This article explores how provincial Iranian laymen and officials who support the regime (here, Basijis) mobilize the bodies and blood of martyrs to sacralize the national landscape in Post‐Revolutionary Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a powerful cohort of religious scholars and everyday citizens has emphasized the need to (re)generate the authentically Islamic interior of the nation while resisting an immoral, “Westernstruck” exterior. …
Feeding Moral Relations
Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran, draws on 15 months of ethnographic research within the households of pro-regime Shi'i Iranians (or Basijis) to examine how Islamic concepts of purity and morality are shaping social relations at the level of both kinship and nation.Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the imperative to protect and create the inner purity of the Shi'i family and nation in the face of impending out…
Regenerating the Islamic Republic
This article explores how provincial Iranian laymen and officials who support the regime (here, Basijis) mobilize the bodies and blood of martyrs to sacralize the national landscape in Post‐Revolutionary Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a powerful cohort of religious scholars and everyday citizens has emphasized the need to (re)generate the authentically Islamic interior of the nation while resisting an immoral, “Westernstruck” exterior. …
Sacralizing kinship, naturalizing the nation
In Iran, ideas and practices of the family are integral to religious nation-making. State elites and supporters (here members of the Basij, Iran's paramilitary organization) tie the blood of kinship to the blood and sacrifice of Iran-Iraq War martyrs. They harness blood's relational and sacred properties in museum displays and commemorations to delineate and sanctify an Islamic nation composed of pure, kindred citizens. Food has similar efficacy:…
Feeding Moral Relations
Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran, draws on 15 months of ethnographic research within the households of pro-regime Shi'i Iranians (or Basijis) to examine how Islamic concepts of purity and morality are shaping social relations at the level of both kinship and nation.Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the imperative to protect and create the inner purity of the Shi'i family and nation in the face of impending out…
Feeding Moral Relations
Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran, draws on 15 months of ethnographic research within the households of pro-regime Shi'i Iranians (or Basijis) to examine how Islamic concepts of purity and morality are shaping social relations at the level of both kinship and nation.Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the imperative to protect and create the inner purity of the Shi'i family and nation in the face of impending out…
Regenerating the Islamic Republic
This article explores how provincial Iranian laymen and officials who support the regime (here, Basijis) mobilize the bodies and blood of martyrs to sacralize the national landscape in Post‐Revolutionary Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a powerful cohort of religious scholars and everyday citizens has emphasized the need to (re)generate the authentically Islamic interior of the nation while resisting an immoral, “Westernstruck” exterior. …
Substance, Spirit, and Sociality Among Shi‘i Muslims in Iran
This chapter draws from ethnographic research in the Fars Province of Iran to explore the dynamic interplay of kinship and piety for an extended family of Shi‘i Muslims. Wellman examines how kinship is constituted, not only through idioms of blood, milk, and contract as found in Islamic inheritance law, but also through everyday and ritual acts such as prayer, sharing food, and visiting. In focusing on the sacred and strategic aspects of kinship …
New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
Edith Turner
Sacralizing kinship, naturalizing the nation
In Iran, ideas and practices of the family are integral to religious nation-making. State elites and supporters (here members of the Basij, Iran's paramilitary organization) tie the blood of kinship to the blood and sacrifice of Iran-Iraq War martyrs. They harness blood's relational and sacred properties in museum displays and commemorations to delineate and sanctify an Islamic nation composed of pure, kindred citizens. Food has similar efficacy:…
Almost Mahram’
This article explores how an American anthropologist navigated the complicated rules of gender avoidance and veiling while living in the home of Iranian state supporters (or members of the Basij, Iran’s paramilitary organisation) in a provincial town in Fars Province. I argue that mahram is configured and activated not only by the dictums of Islamic law, but also according to contexts such as living circumstances, interpersonal trust and town pol…
In a Basiji Kitchen
This article explores the political life of jello, or zheleh, among Basiji Shi‘i families in the contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the inception of the 1979 Constitution, Islamic laws concerning halal food, drink, and culinary etiquette have been heavily emphasized by state policy makers. This article focuses on jello, a popular gelatin dessert among state supporting Shi‘i families (here members of the Basij, Iran's paramilitary organi…
The Healthy Dearborn coalition
Healthy Dearborn (HD), in Dearborn, Michigan, has a mission to ensure everyone has access to healthy foods, health care and opportunities for active living. HD, a partnership between a health care system, city government, schools and 550+ community members, is guided by a steering committee and research team. We describe the role of the research team in shaping HD’s work and city policy. The University of Michigan–Dearborn, with other universitie…
Feeding Iran
Reports
Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm (eds), Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (London: Routledge, 2021), 213 pp. Erika Friedl, Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran: Theology, Saints, People (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021), xix + 178 pp
Sacred as Secular
Journal Article Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR Get access Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR. Montreal, Canada: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2021, 264 234 pp.; $39.95 (paperback). Rose Wellman Rose Wellman University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Commemorations and outreach
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, spurring dramatic changes in public health policies, travel between countries, and (trans)national economies, as well as in religious and political institutions. In the United States, in particular, the pandemic provoked and revealed an increasingly fraught relationship between scientific, religious, and political sources of informatio…
Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Kinship (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)