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Eshiretan in Kurdistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Diane E. King
Diane E. King*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: deking@uky.edu
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The “eshiret” (‘eşîret in the romanized Kurmanji Kurdish alphabet) is a highly variable and situated concept and social and political entity in Kurdistan, the homeland of ethnic Kurdish people. This essay is based on regular ethnographic fieldwork I have been conducting in part of Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. My first research stint was in the mid-1990s, and I was there most recently in 2016. During the early period of my research, I had a great deal of contact with people in nonurban settings for whom an eshiret may be an important social category and contributor to individual identity.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 488 - 491
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