Cultural landscape of Iran from archaeological and historical perspective 2800-DKCULIR
This course will first show students how the geography of Iran was inhabited by
and impacted on modern humans during the Paleolithic period and how these
populations dispersed in Iran after the Neolithic period. Then, the formation of
ethnic groups and tribes in different parts of Iran based on geographical and
topographical conditions will be discussed. The formation of the first Iranian
kingdoms in second millennium B.C., which were probably based on ethnic roots
dating back thousands of years, will be another important topic in this course. The
transformation of Iran into an empire and a unified country during the Achaemenid
period, which is one of the turning points in Iranian history, is another important
topic in this class. Examining the tribes and groups in the Parthian and Sasanian
kingdoms and how they were managed as a cohesive society will help us
understand the pattern of coexistence of Iranian tribes. The Arab invasion of Iran is
also one of the most important changes in the cultural landscape of Iran, the impact
of which remains to this day, and in this regard, it is an important topic of
discussion in the class. The modernization of Iran is another significant and current
issue in Iran that has had a great impact on Iranian culture, and therefore it is
discussed in detail in class. This course will be and comprehensive reviewing of
Iranian population and culture through its long history.
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Tryb prowadzenia
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Efekty kształcenia
- Students will learn about the distribution of modern human populations in
the Middle East and Iran.
- Students will gain relevant information about new discovery and outcomes
of archaeogenetics studies of Iranian and Middle Eastern populations.
- Students will gain deep insights into the natural and cultural geography of
Iran, as well as the impact of geography on the distribution of human
populations and the formation of various ethnic and cultural groups and
ethnicities.
- Students will learn about the impact of ethnic and cultural roots on the
political structure of the first Iranian governments.
- Students will gain a deep perspective on the relationship between ethnic
identity and national identity in one of the most complex cultures in the
world.
- Students will see interesting examples of the impact and role of beliefs and
religion in the fate of human societies.
- The modernization of non-European countries has always been enlightening
for researchers, and familiarity with the process of Iranian modernization
allows students to gain a deeper understanding of how their society
modernized.
Kryteria oceniania
Students should come to class prepared participate in the discussion which will be
a key component of the final grade (20% of final grade).
Student should prepare an abstract of previous session for each class (30% of the
final grade)
Final exam will be taken for 50% of the final grade.
Literatura
- Alizadeh, A. 2010. ‘The rise of the highland Elamite state in southwestern
Iran’. Current Anthropology 51/3, 353–379.
- Amanat, A. 2017, ‘Iran: A modern History’. Yale University Press
- Biglari, F. and Shidrang, S. 2016. ‘New evidence of Paleolithic occupation
in the western Zagros foothills: preliminary report of cave and rock shelter
survey in the Sar Qaleh Plain in the west of Kermanshah Province, Iran’, in
K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis (eds) The Archaeology of the Kurdistan
Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions. Oxford: Archaeopress, 29–38.
- Caheb C., Cambridge History of Iran, Tribes, Cities and Social
Organization, vol. 4, p305–328
- Curtis, J. 2000. Ancient Persia. London: The British Museum
- Curtis, J. 2005c. ‘The archaeology of the Achaemenid period’, in J. Curtis
and N. Tallis (eds) Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. London:
The British Museum, 30–49.
- Dahl, J. L. 2013. ‘Early writing in Iran’, in D. T. Potts (ed.) The Oxford
Handbook of Ancient Iran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 233–262.
- Darabi, H. 2015. An Introduction to the Neolithic Revolution in the Central
Zagros. BAR International Series 2746. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Narasimhan, V. M., Patterson, N., Moorjani, P., Rohland, N., Bernardos, R.,
Mallick, S., Lazaridis, I., Nakatsuka, N., Olalde, I. and Lipson, M. 2019.
‘The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia’. Science
365/6457, eaat7487.
- Potts, D. T. 2016. The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation
of an Ancient Iranian State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(second edition)
- Vahdati Nasab, H. 2011. ‘Paleolithic archaeology in Iran’. The International
Journal of Humanities 18/2, 63–87.
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