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 Vico鈥檚 combination of anthropology and philology.听
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 Sa鈥榙卯 Shir芒z卯 [the Silver of a Poor Heart: a Hundred and One Ghazals of Sa鈥榙卯 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. Sa鈥榙i: Concordance and Repertoires of 1000 Lines. Venezia: Poligrafo. [Statistic repertoires of 1000 lines from Sa鈥榙i鈥檚 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. 鈥淭hinking with the Impersonal: An Ethnographic View From Iran.鈥� In Antropologia. 6, n.1 N/S 199-215.
___. 2019 b. 鈥淥rdinary Matters in Islamic Studies: Notes from the Field.鈥� 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. 鈥淭he Ruins of Shiraz: History Memory and Forgetting in the Islamic Republic of Iran,鈥� in Remembering the Past in Iranian Cultures. C. Allison and Philip Kreyenbroek eds. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
___. 2013b. 鈥淭he Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran鈥� In Modernity鈥檚 Classics. S.H. Humphreys and R.G. Wagner eds. Springer, Heidelberg.
___. 2011a. 鈥淭wo Forms of Temporality in Contemporary Iran鈥� in Sociologica. 3, 1-17.
___. 2011b. 鈥淲anderings Beyond Codification and Desire,鈥� 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. 鈥淲here is this Place? Crowds, Audio-Vision and Poetry in Postelection Iran.鈥� Public Culture 22. 2: 237-263.
___. 2006a. 鈥淐ose di Casa: Modalit脿 di Esposizione e Costruzione dei Sessi a Shiraz鈥� [Things at Home: Display and the Construction of Sex in Shiraz] Quaderni del Cream. Milano, 133-168.
___. 2005a. 鈥淧ane, Popolo e Inglesi: forme di dominio a Shiraz nel 1917鈥� [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.
