Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves

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Kurdistan provides an introduction to and a succinct history of the idea of Kurdistan, the imagined homeland of the Kurds. Christopher Houston examines the historiography, ethnography, and changing political status of the Kurdish regions vis-a-vis the Ottoman and British empires, and considers the responses of Kurds to the nation-building missions of modern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. These projects, driven by ambitious elites in the modernizing capitals of new nation-states, were accompanied by varying degrees of ...
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Kurdistan provides an introduction to and a succinct history of the idea of Kurdistan, the imagined homeland of the Kurds. Christopher Houston examines the historiography, ethnography, and changing political status of the Kurdish regions vis-a-vis the Ottoman and British empires, and considers the responses of Kurds to the nation-building missions of modern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. These projects, driven by ambitious elites in the modernizing capitals of new nation-states, were accompanied by varying degrees of intolerance toward minority ethnic languages, political institutions, and regional autonomy.

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Christopher Houston is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia and author of Islam, Kurds, and the Turkish Nation-State

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"... Houston finds new ways to look at the processes of secularism, modernization, nationalism, and Islamism in this area and how these processes have affected Kurdish identities. He usefully critiques other authors, particularly anthropologists.... He includes a helpful bibliography of a range of sources, including some in Turkish.... Recommended." —Choice, July 2009
American Historical Review
"... Kurdish identities are forged, sometimes in connection with the other and sometimes, as in southeastern Turkey, in isolation." —Robert Olson, University of Kentucky, American Historical Review, June 2009

— Robert Olson, University of Kentucky

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  • ISBN-13: 9781845202699
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 8/19/2008
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.25 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Christopher Houston is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, and author of Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation-State.

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Table of Contents

1 Nationalizing origins 9

2 'Set aside from the pen and cut off from the foot' : imagining the Ottoman Empire and Kurdistan 35

3 Representing Kurds : a brief history of Kurds and Kurdistan in ethnography 65

4 Kemalism and the crafting of national selves in Kurdistan 97

5 Kurdish inhabitation of the 'Kemalist city' 139

Conclusion 159

References 165

Index 179

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