Soraya Tremayne
Biographic Data
| ID | 94131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soraya Tremayne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soraya |
| FAMILY NAME | Tremayne |
| SIGNATURE | TREMAYNE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows
Transgression in its literal definition means the violation of the boundaries of social, moral, and cultural conventions. Examples across cultures abound testifying to the way transgression and conformity can become pathways for each other to accommodate change or soften the impact of deviation for the common good. In this article, ethnographic case studies from Iran provide fertile grounds for an examination of the solutions Iranians from all wa…
Anonymous Gamete Donation in Iran
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) were legitimized in Iran through the rulings ( fatwa ) of some of the Shia Islamic jurists, who, in allowing third‐party gamete donation, specified that the resulting child will belong to its biological parent from whom it will take its lineage and inherit. However, three decades on and in practice, the recipients of gamete are increasingly resorting to seeking third‐party gamete from anonymous donors, an…
Remembering Camillia El-Solh
The Journey of Infertility from Private Sphere to Public Domain
This study explores the process by which the treatment of infertility, which has been in the hands of the private sector, has been taken over by the state as a matter of public health. It argues that this shift stems from the pro-natalist policies of the state to help increase the population. Infertility treatment, using assisted reproductive technologies and its legitimization by the Islamic jurists, is used as a lens through which to examine th…
Assisted reproduction and Middle East kinship
Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and the Bioethical Aftermath
Conceiving IVF in Iran
Parenthood between Generations
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by ant…
Reports
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
Religion, Identity and Minorities in the Middle East
Kinship in the Middle East
The study of kinship remains central to anthropology and to understanding the social world in which we live. Although key debates on kinship have stayed embedded in anthropological studies, the impact of global changes affecting marriage, divorce, family structure, and the inevitable consequences of the interaction between biotechnologies and social and cultural practices have all served to bring back kinship into anthropological discourse in a f…
Reports
BOOKS Zyarah, Khaled (1997), Gulf Folk Arts, trans. by K. Bishtawi (Doha: Al-Ahleir Press). 63 Arabic pages and 58 English pages. Every chapter has a black and white picture. Al Bagdadi, Khaled (2004), Hassan Al Mulla. e Memory of Man and Place (Doha: Doha Modern Printing Press). 184 pages, illustrated in colour. 10 pages of English text, trans. by Samar Al Hussein. Taha, Dr. Munir (2003), Qatar in Prehistoric Times (Doha: Antiquities and Museums…
Modernity and Early Marriage in Iran
past few decades have witnessed important changes in the patterns of marriage in the Middle East and North Africa. These changes are well documented by specialists from various disciplines and from diverse perspectives (see Hopkins 2003; Singerman and Hoodfar 1996; Tucker 1993; Moghadam 1993; Afshar 1993; Abbasi-Shavazi, McDonald, Chavoshi 2003). They stem from a multitude of reasons moulded by modernity and globalisation, which include inter ali…
Modernity and Early Marriage In Iran
Change and 'Face' in Modern Iran
This article examines the interface between modernity and traditional cultural values. It suggests that Iranian society, in spite of its Islamic theocratic regime, is on one level an open society and has shown a surprising degree of flexibility in adapting to change. Yet on another level, Iran remains a closed society with strong cultural ties that act as unifying factors controlling the boundaries of interaction between the old and the new. One …
Not all Muslims are Luddites
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?
The Politics of Duplicity
Assisted reproduction and Middle East kinship
The Politics of Duplicity
Parenthood between Generations
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by ant…
Modernity and Early Marriage in Iran
past few decades have witnessed important changes in the patterns of marriage in the Middle East and North Africa. These changes are well documented by specialists from various disciplines and from diverse perspectives (see Hopkins 2003; Singerman and Hoodfar 1996; Tucker 1993; Moghadam 1993; Afshar 1993; Abbasi-Shavazi, McDonald, Chavoshi 2003). They stem from a multitude of reasons moulded by modernity and globalisation, which include inter ali…
Not all Muslims are Luddites
Conceiving IVF in Iran
Change and 'Face' in Modern Iran
This article examines the interface between modernity and traditional cultural values. It suggests that Iranian society, in spite of its Islamic theocratic regime, is on one level an open society and has shown a surprising degree of flexibility in adapting to change. Yet on another level, Iran remains a closed society with strong cultural ties that act as unifying factors controlling the boundaries of interaction between the old and the new. One …
The Journey of Infertility from Private Sphere to Public Domain
This study explores the process by which the treatment of infertility, which has been in the hands of the private sector, has been taken over by the state as a matter of public health. It argues that this shift stems from the pro-natalist policies of the state to help increase the population. Infertility treatment, using assisted reproductive technologies and its legitimization by the Islamic jurists, is used as a lens through which to examine th…
Modernity and Early Marriage In Iran
The Politics of Duplicity
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?
Reports
BOOKS Zyarah, Khaled (1997), Gulf Folk Arts, trans. by K. Bishtawi (Doha: Al-Ahleir Press). 63 Arabic pages and 58 English pages. Every chapter has a black and white picture. Al Bagdadi, Khaled (2004), Hassan Al Mulla. e Memory of Man and Place (Doha: Doha Modern Printing Press). 184 pages, illustrated in colour. 10 pages of English text, trans. by Samar Al Hussein. Taha, Dr. Munir (2003), Qatar in Prehistoric Times (Doha: Antiquities and Museums…
Modernity and Early Marriage in Iran
past few decades have witnessed important changes in the patterns of marriage in the Middle East and North Africa. These changes are well documented by specialists from various disciplines and from diverse perspectives (see Hopkins 2003; Singerman and Hoodfar 1996; Tucker 1993; Moghadam 1993; Afshar 1993; Abbasi-Shavazi, McDonald, Chavoshi 2003). They stem from a multitude of reasons moulded by modernity and globalisation, which include inter ali…
Modernity and Early Marriage In Iran
Change and 'Face' in Modern Iran
This article examines the interface between modernity and traditional cultural values. It suggests that Iranian society, in spite of its Islamic theocratic regime, is on one level an open society and has shown a surprising degree of flexibility in adapting to change. Yet on another level, Iran remains a closed society with strong cultural ties that act as unifying factors controlling the boundaries of interaction between the old and the new. One …
Not all Muslims are Luddites
Kinship in the Middle East
The study of kinship remains central to anthropology and to understanding the social world in which we live. Although key debates on kinship have stayed embedded in anthropological studies, the impact of global changes affecting marriage, divorce, family structure, and the inevitable consequences of the interaction between biotechnologies and social and cultural practices have all served to bring back kinship into anthropological discourse in a f…
Religion, Identity and Minorities in the Middle East
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
Reports
Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and the Bioethical Aftermath
Conceiving IVF in Iran
Parenthood between Generations
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by ant…
Assisted reproduction and Middle East kinship
Remembering Camillia El-Solh
The Journey of Infertility from Private Sphere to Public Domain
This study explores the process by which the treatment of infertility, which has been in the hands of the private sector, has been taken over by the state as a matter of public health. It argues that this shift stems from the pro-natalist policies of the state to help increase the population. Infertility treatment, using assisted reproductive technologies and its legitimization by the Islamic jurists, is used as a lens through which to examine th…
Anonymous Gamete Donation in Iran
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) were legitimized in Iran through the rulings ( fatwa ) of some of the Shia Islamic jurists, who, in allowing third‐party gamete donation, specified that the resulting child will belong to its biological parent from whom it will take its lineage and inherit. However, three decades on and in practice, the recipients of gamete are increasingly resorting to seeking third‐party gamete from anonymous donors, an…
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows
Transgression in its literal definition means the violation of the boundaries of social, moral, and cultural conventions. Examples across cultures abound testifying to the way transgression and conformity can become pathways for each other to accommodate change or soften the impact of deviation for the common good. In this article, ethnographic case studies from Iran provide fertile grounds for an examination of the solutions Iranians from all wa…
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