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Titre
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En
Persia: Romance and Reality. Impressions of Travel
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Fr
Perse : romantisme et realite. Impressions de voyage
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Type
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Travelogue
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Auteur.e.s
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Merritt-Hawkes, Onera Amelia (1877–1951)
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Résumé
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En
Travelogue by the English scientist and writer Onera Amelia Merritt-Hawkes, published in 1935 with eight photographs and 324 pages, recounting her impressions of travel through Iran during the early Pahlavi period. Merritt-Hawkes, who also wrote a rural memoir (The Cottage by the Common, 1924) and a later Mexican travelogue (High Up in Mexico, 1936) before publishing further work under the pseudonym Mary Weston, brings a scientifically trained, socially engaged perspective informed by her decades-long interest in social reform and women's condition. The book's diary entries record a lunch with a Baha'i doctor, visits to two Baha'i schools in Yazd, and meetings with Baha'i children in Kerman, documenting the position and educational institutions of Iran's Baha'i minority under early Pahlavi rule. Reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society (1935) alongside contemporary titles including Freya Stark's The Valleys of the Assassins, the work is cited as a standard bibliographic source in multiple Springer reference chapters on interwar Persia/Iran, and has been the subject of recent postcolonial literary scholarship applying Deleuzo-Guattarian frameworks to its representation of Persian identity. Of central relevance for the study of religious minority life in early Pahlavi Iran, Merritt-Hawkes's direct, sustained engagement with Baha'i communities and their schools in Yazd and Kerman — cities also documented in this collection by Napier Malcolm's Five Years in a Persian Town — provides valuable comparative material on the institutional and social position of a religious community whose emergence out of Babism is closely bound up with the broader Shi'i devotional culture, including Muharram observance and ta'zieh, that dominates this collection.
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Fr
Recit de voyage de la scientifique et ecrivaine anglaise Onera Amelia Merritt-Hawkes, publie en 1935 avec huit photographies et 324 pages, relatant ses impressions de voyage a travers l'Iran durant le debut de l'ere pahlavie. Merritt-Hawkes, qui ecrivit egalement un memoire rural (The Cottage by the Common, 1924) et un recit de voyage mexicain ulterieur (High Up in Mexico, 1936) avant de publier d'autres ouvrages sous le pseudonyme de Mary Weston, apporte une perspective scientifiquement formee et socialement engagee, nourrie de son interet de plusieurs decennies pour la reforme sociale et la condition des femmes. Les entrees du journal du livre consignent un dejeuner avec un medecin baha'i, des visites a deux ecoles baha'ies de Yazd, et des rencontres avec des enfants baha'is a Kerman, documentant la position et les institutions educatives de la minorite baha'ie d'Iran sous les debuts du regne pahlavi. Recense dans le Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society (1935) aux cotes de titres contemporains dont The Valleys of the Assassins de Freya Stark, l'ouvrage est cite comme source bibliographique standard dans plusieurs chapitres de reference Springer sur la Perse/l'Iran de l'entre-deux-guerres, et a fait l'objet d'etudes litteraires postcoloniales recentes appliquant des cadres deleuzo-guattariens a sa representation de l'identite persane. D'une importance centrale pour l'etude de la vie des minorites religieuses dans l'Iran du debut de l'ere pahlavie, l'engagement direct et soutenu de Merritt-Hawkes avec les communautes baha'ies et leurs ecoles a Yazd et Kerman — villes egalement documentees dans cette collection par Five Years in a Persian Town de Napier Malcolm — fournit un materiel comparatif precieux sur la position institutionnelle et sociale d'une communaute religieuse dont l'emergence a partir du babisme est etroitement liee a la culture devotionnelle chiite plus large, dont les commemorations de Muharram et la ta'zieh, qui domine cette collection.
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Edition
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Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London
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Date
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1935
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Langue
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En
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Citation bibliographique
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Merritt-Hawkes, Onera Amelia. 1935. Persia: Romance and Reality. Impressions of Travel. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson.
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Droits
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Public Domain