In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines the practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate defiance against the official culture and the parental generation.

Young and Defiant in Tehran

Shahram Khosravi

2007 | 240 pages | Cloth $55.00 | Paper $24.95
Anthropology
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Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Dates

Preface
Introduction
1: Cultural Crimes
2: The Aesthetics of Authority
3: A Dissident Neighborhood
4: A Passage to Modernity: Golestan
5: The Third Generation
6: Culture of Defiance
Conclusion
Coda

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments