Description: Reclaiming the Faravahar is an ethnographic study of the contemporary Zoroastrians in Tehran. It examines many public discursive and ritual performances to show how they utilize national, religious, and ethnic categories to frame the Zoroastrian identity within the longstanding conflict between Iranian Shi.a and Arab Sunnis, defining and defending Zoroastrians' identity and values in Shi.i dominated Iran.
Brief description:
Navid Fozi holds a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Boston University. He is currently a Fulbright scholar conducting fieldwork on the Iranian diaspora in Malaysia.
Review Quotes: "Fozi has given us an insightful and ethnographically rich exploration of how the post-revolutionary Iranian state has sought to regulate and circumscribe the practices of the Zoroastrian community, and how that community has adapted its own traditions in order to survive under such conditions. An important contribution to the anthropological study of non-Muslim minorities in Muslim majority states."--Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley