{"title":"Erika Friedl","description":"\u003cp\u003eErika Friedl's works offer an insightful exploration of cultural aesthetics and social practices, often set within unique geographic and historical contexts. Readers can expect richly detailed narratives that illuminate the intersections of art, tradition, and everyday life, particularly in regions like the Zagros Mountains of Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer writing bridges anthropology and education, inviting a deeper understanding of human expression and the art of living across diverse communities. These books are ideal for those interested in cultural studies, heritage, and the nuanced relationship between beauty and daily existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aesthetics-and-the-art-of-living-in-the-zagros-mountains-of-iran-by-erika-friedl-9781399536745","title":"Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this rare approach to half a century of ethnographic study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, the emotional and judgmental reactions local people have to conventions and customs of their own culture is in sharp focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book rests on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group over five decades in a remote mountain area in Iran. The effects of hard work, poverty, and lifestyle changes over the past decades have moulded people's likes and dislikes, their comforts and pains, and what they deem beautiful and ugly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the aesthetics of everyday life, social structures, traditions, and local habits provide many choices for behaviour and experiences, and also for the feelings the various options allow or even provoke. This focus on the cognitive and emotive side of culture affords insights into how rural\/transhumant people evaluate their life conditions, their relationships to others, to nature, to time, to religion, and thus to the aesthetic dimension of their lives over half a century of rapid change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran\u003c\/em\u003e offers a compelling exploration of the aesthetics of daily existence amidst the backdrop of significant social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933628743916,"sku":"9781399536745","price":102.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399536745-aesthetics-and-the-art-of-living-in-the-zagros-mountains-of-iran.jpg?v=1783878936"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/erika-friedl.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}