Kurdistan: crafting of national selves.
Hashem Ahmadzadeh.
Publisher: American Library Association
Publication Date: 2009
Publication Name: Choice Reviews Online, International Mountain Society.

The Kurdish question as a consequence of the rise and development of the modern nation-states in the Middle East and West Asia since the early decades of the 20th century has drawn the attention of scholars of the social and political sciences. Over the last two decades,the number of academic works devoted to analysis of various aspects of Kurdish societies has seen an unprecedented increase.
The latest academic work, which tries to provide the reader with an analysis of the formation of Kurdistan and the way that it has been represented in the nationalist ideologies of the modern nationstates that govern the Kurds (ie Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), is by the Australian anthropologist Christopher Houston.
The book,besides the introduction and conclusion,consists of five chapters and is complemented by a rich bibliography and detailed subject index. The introduction points out the theoretical standpoints..
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