Associate Professor
Joint appointment Islamic Studies/Anthroplogy
Setrag Manoukian is an anthropologist interested in knowledge and its relationship with power, understood both as existential and social force. He approaches cities, poems, videos and other technologies as forms of knowledge with specific existential trajectories and attends to their historicity. His area of speciality is Iran. He is looking for ways to pursue Giambattista Vicoâs combination of anthropology and philology.Ìę
Research Interests
Knowledge; historicity; ethnography of texts; semiotics; critical theory; technology; poetry; power; anthropology and history of Iran.
Representative Publications
Books
___. 2012. City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, History, and Poetry. Routledge Publishers, London.
___.1991. L'Argento di un Povero Cuore: Centouno Ghazal di SaâdĂź ShirĂązĂź [the Silver of a Poor Heart: a Hundred and One Ghazals of SaâdĂź Shirazi]. Roma: Cultural Institute of Iran 273 pp. (Reviewed in the journal Iranian Studies 32.1 by Richard Davis).
Edited Books
___. 2003. S. Manoukian ed. Etno-grafie: testi oggetti immagini [Ethno-graphies: Texts, Objects, Images], Roma, Meltemi.
___. 2002. A. Bellagamba and S. Manoukian eds. Colonialismo a thematic issue of the yearbook Annuario Antropologia, Roma, Meltemi.
___. 1992. S. Manoukian and R. Zipoli. Saâdi: Concordance and Repertoires of 1000 Lines. Venezia: Poligrafo. [Statistic repertoires of 1000 lines from Saâdiâs ghazals.
___. 1988. S. Manoukian and H. Vahramian eds. Gharabagh: Documenti. [collection of articles on the history of the Gharabagh region].
Articles and Chapters
___. 2019 a. âThinking with the Impersonal: An Ethnographic View From Iran.â In Antropologia. 6, n.1 N/S 199-215.
___. 2019 b. âOrdinary Matters in Islamic Studies: Notes from the Field.â In ReOrient. 5(1): 6-24.
___. 2017. A Vocabulary for the Impersonal: a Notebook from Shiraz." in Manifestos for World Thought Lucian Stone and Jason Mohaghegh editors, Rowman and Littlefield: London, New York. Pp. 155-169.
___. 2013a. âThe Ruins of Shiraz: History Memory and Forgetting in the Islamic Republic of Iran,â in Remembering the Past in Iranian Cultures. C. Allison and Philip Kreyenbroek eds. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
___. 2013b. âThe Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iranâ In Modernityâs Classics. S.H. Humphreys and R.G. Wagner eds. Springer, Heidelberg.
___. 2011a. âTwo Forms of Temporality in Contemporary Iranâ in Sociologica. 3, 1-17.
___. 2011b. âWanderings Beyond Codification and Desire,â in Anthrohistory. Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline. Edward Murphy, Chandra D. Bhimull, Fernando Coronil, Monica Eileen Patterson and Julie Skurski eds. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
___. 2010. âWhere is this Place? Crowds, Audio-Vision and Poetry in Postelection Iran.â Public Culture 22. 2: 237-263.
___. 2006a. âCose di Casa: ModalitĂ di Esposizione e Costruzione dei Sessi a Shirazâ [Things at Home: Display and the Construction of Sex in Shiraz] Quaderni del Cream. Milano, 133-168.
___. 2005a. âPane, Popolo e Inglesi: forme di dominio a Shiraz nel 1917â [Bread, People and the British: forms of domination in Shiraz 1917] in La dipendenza: antropologia delle relazioni di dominio, P.G. Solinas ed. Lecce, Argo. 205-230.