The Chaldeans

Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora

Yasmeen Hanoosh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-369-8 (ISBN)

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Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as ‘Chaldean’ by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands of assimilation in the US, together with increased hostility and sectarian violence in Iraq, gave rise to a complex and transnational identity. Faced with Islamophobia in the US, Chaldeans were at pains to emphasize a Christian identity, and appropriated the ancient, pre-Islamic history of their namesake as a means of distinction between them and other immigrants from Arab lands. In this, the first ethnographic history of the modern Chaldeans, Yasmeen Hanoosh explores these ancient-modern inflections in contemporary Chaldean identity discourses, the use of history as a collective commodity for developing and sustaining a positive community image in the present, and the use of language revival and monumental symbolism to reclaim association with Christian and pre-Christian traditions.

Yasmeen Hanoosh is associate professor of Arabic Studies at Portland State University, USA. She received her PhD. in Arabic Language and Literature from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2008). She has contributed chapters to several peer-reviewed edited collections and her research on Iraqi literature and Arabic literary translation has been published in Arab Studies Journal and the Journal of Arabic Literature.

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Introduction

1. On the Politics of Appellation: The Making of the Modern Chaldeans 27

2. Archaeology, Philology and Mission: The Modern History of Ancient Chaldean History

3. Arab/Chaldean/Assyrian Distinctions: Political Survival in the New Nation State of Iraq

4. From Religious to Ethnic Minority: Between Iraq and America in the Twentieth Century

5. Family, Marriage and Ethnic Economy: A Transnational Social Field Perspective

6. The Modern Chaldean Church: Global Circuits of Ecclesial Power

7. A Safe Haven Dream: Home between Detroit and the Nineveh Plain

8. Chaldeanness: The Official Narrative and its Changing Displays

Epilogue: Centre and Peripheries of Chaldeanness in the Twilight of the Nation State

Appendix: Appellations and Languages

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78831-369-0 / 1788313690
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-369-8 / 9781788313698
Zustand	Neuware