The Invention of Iran: From 'Iranianness' to 'Persianness'.
The intellectual 'invention of Iran' is a potent image that owes its birth to the Orientalist practice of archaeology and historiography from the mid-19 to the latter 20 century: an intellectual enterprise that originated from the myth of Aryan race theory, the hypothesis of Aryan migration to the I...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 57 - 78 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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