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Curated Collections highlight articles published in the last decade from our AnthroSource archives that speak to urgent issues in the present, offering insight into current events unfolding around the globe. From movements for racial justice and Indigenous sovereignty to the social implications of climate change, technological transformation, war, migration, and public health, these contributions demonstrate anthropology’s enduring relevance and responsibilities.
This collection, on Iran, features authors who draw on their fieldwork and expertise to illuminate how individuals and communities navigate, resist, and reshape the forces impacting their lives. They engage with contemporary debates not only as scholars but as public intellectuals committed to accountability, justice, and praxis within and beyond the academy.
Recreating Virginity in Iran: Hymenoplasty as a Form of Resistance
Azal Ahmadi
On Anthropology and Ethnography of and in Iran
Christian Bromberger
The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran
Michael M. J. Fischer
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match
Mirco Göpfert
Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran
Nat Nesvaderani
Emotions of Felt Memories: Looking for Interplay of Emotions and Histories in Iranian Political Consciousness Since Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
Younes Saramifar
Invisible Experts: The Curious Case of the Book Knower in Iran
Hosna Sheikholeslami
Reading as Practice: The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran and Clair de Lune
Amina Tawasil
A Possible Perfection: Prayers Upon the Prophet and the Evocation of an Exemplary Islamist Public in Postrevolutionary Iran
Simon Theobald
Sacralizing Kinship, Naturalizing the Nation: Blood and Food in Postrevolutionary Iran
Rose Wellman
Outsmarting Sanctions: Experiments with Fictitious Commodities across Iran and Turkey
Emrah Yıldız