Abstract
My ethnographic fieldwork on the photography of African slavery began in 2011, with a couple of Qajar photographs in which I could observe the presence of African slaves in the harem of Nasser al-Din Shah, the king of Persia (Figures 1-3).2 Therefore, in this research project my starting point are images rather than texts. Those photographs belonged to the photography archive of Golestan Palace, the former residence of several kings in Tehran. Since the creation of the Pahlavi Dynasty (1925- 79), this palace has become one of the major archives with regard to Qajar rulers, and its photography archive certainly plays an important role in the re-construction of untold stories from this crucial period in modern Iran.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 56-96 |
| Number of pages | 41 |
| Journal | Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Africa
- Iran
- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
- history
- photography
- slavery
- slavery and Islam