Ahmadinejad's Legacy

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102101/1/mepo12051.pd

The Islamic Republic of Iran : Facts and Fiction

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90609/1/j.1475-4967.2012.00520.x.pd

Iran's Fourth Plan: A Partial Assessment

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113103/1/j.1475-4967.2010.00466.x.pd

Iran: Den nye præsidents mange udfordringer

Jahangir Amuzegar skriver om Hassan Rowhani nye regeringsperiode i Iran.&nbsp

narrating traditional iranian carpet merchants

Iranian carpet merchants developed a collective identitary narrative to enhance their capital creation in the social field of the German market, the field of Iranian foreign trade, and transnational bazari networks. This chapter goes beyond the practicalities of juggling resources across social fields: it explains the motivation behind this agency. Building on David Graeber's anthropology of value, as well as on studies about identity marketing and ethnic entrepreneurship, I show how the merchants' resources were evaluated between the 1950s and today to explain by which systems of value these social fields were shaped. From the confrontation between changing systems of value emerges Iranian carpet merchants' potential to increase the efficiency of their capital creation by—collectively—trying to redefine the meaning of their resources