Nasser Fakouhi

Nasser Fakouhi ناصر فکوهی
Personal details
Born	13 May 1956 Teheran, Iran Tehran
Alma mater	University of Paris

Nasser Fakouhi (born 1956 in Tehran) (in persian ناصر فکوهی) is an Iranian anthropologist, writer and translator.

Nasser Fakouhi was born on 1956 to a middleclass family in Tehran, Iran. Professional publicist, writer and translator, he is an associate professor of anthropology of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran and the president of a scientific and multidisciplinary website called Anthropology and Culture ( www.anthropology.ir). He’s also a member of International Association of Sociology (ISA) and International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS).

Fakouhi obtained his PhD in political Anthropology from University of Paris in 1993. Among his most important books one can note “Political Violence”, “The History and Theories of Anthropology” , “Urban Anthropology”, “From Culture to Development”, “Iranian National and Ethnic Identities: Articulation and Conflict”. As a translator, he has published books of authors such as Roland Barthes (Empire of Signs); Pierre Bourdieu (About Television; A Lesson on the Lesson); Marc Augé and J.P. Colleyne (Anthropology); JMG Le Clezio (Mondo and other histories); Maurice Bloch (Cognitive anthropology), Roland Breton (Ethnopolotics), David Le Breton (Sociology of Body), etc.

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Iranian intellectual and philosopher classified Fakouhi, with some other figures such as J. Tabatabaii, B. Ahmadi, F.Sadeghi among what he called “dialogical intellectuals” on contemporary Iran.

The primarily field of interest of Fakouhi is the social pathology of contemporary Iran and especially the problems concerning the ethnic, communitarian and local identities in their relations with the global level. Presently he’s conducting a large project of oral and documented project over the Modern Iran Cultural history.

Books

Fakouhi has published largely in Persian (11 books), he has also contributed to chapters in English and French books. He translated about 20 books from French and English into Persian. He is the author of more than 300 lectures, reviews, notes, essays, interviews etc. in scientific and public journals and reviews in Persian and a few number in English and French.

Publication

Publications (in Persian) :

• Political violence : Theories, Concepts and Forms ; 1998, Tehran: Ghatreh Ed.,

• Political Mythology : Art, Myths and Power ;1998, Tehran: Ferdos Ed

• From Culture to Development ; 1999, Tehran: Ferdos Ed., Tehran.

• Applied Anthropology and Development ; 2003, Tehran: Afkar Ed..

• History of Anthropological Thought and Theories; 2003, Tehran: Ney Ed.

• Urban Anthropology; 2003, Tehran: Ney Ed.

• In the Labyrinths of Globalization; 2004, Tehran: Ney Ed.

• Pieces of Anthropology; 2005, Tehran:Ney Ed.

• Conflict and Articulation : Iranian identity and ethnicity; 2009, Tehran: GolAzin Ed.

• Anthropology of Art, Myths and Politics ; 2012, Tehran: Sales Ed.

• Anthropological Discourse; 2012, Tehran: Mehrnamak (Forthcoming).

Contributions to collective publications in English and French :

« Manger avec les Morts : le pique-nique en Iran », in Barthes-Deloizy, F., 2008, Le Pique- Nique ou l’éloge d’un bonheur ordinaire, Paris: Ed. Bréal.

« Making and remaking an Academic Tradition: Towards an Indigenous Anthropology in Iran », Chapter 5, in Najmabadi, Sh.(ed.), 2010, Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology, Past and Present Perspectives, New York & Oxford : Berghahn Books.

Traductions into Persian :

• Roland, R., La Vie de Tolstoi ; 1986, Tehran : Danesh Ed.

• Roland, R., Les Mémoires de la Jeunesse ; 1990, Tehran : Ferdos Ed.

• Bettelheim, Ch., Les Luttes de classes en URSS(1930-1941), 3ème et 4ème volumes et postface à la traduction en persan : Les Années Gorbatchev; 1996, Tehran : Ney Ed.

• Paz, O., Rire et pénitence ; 1998, Tehran : Toos Ed.

• Rivière, Cl., Introduction à l’ethnologie ; 2004, Tehran : Ney Ed.

• Breton, R., Ethnopolitiques ; 2005, Tehran : Ney Ed..

• Barthes, R., L’Empire des signes ; Tehran, 2005, Ney Ed.

• Rouch J. et al., Introduction au cinéma ethnographiques, recueille de texte par N ; Fakouhi ; 2006, Tehran : Ney Ed.

• Rivière, Cl., Anthropologie politique ; 2006, Tehran : Ney Ed.

• Bloch, M., Anthropologie cognitive à l’épreuve de terrain, Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, ;2007, Tehran : Ney. Ed.

• Augé, M. , Anthropologie,2009, Tehran : Ney Ed.

• Bourdieu, P. ; 2009, Leçon sur la Leçon, Tehran : Ney Ed..

• L’Homme et la Culture, receuilles de textes des auteurs européens en sciences sociales et humaines ;2010, Tehran : Javid Ed.,.

• JMG.Le Clézio, Mondo et les autres histoires ; 2011, Tehran : Mahriz,.

• Bourdieu, P., Sur la Télévision ; 2011, Tehran : Javid Ed..

• Levy Strauss, C., L’Anthropologe Structurale, 2 vols. ; Tehran : Javid Ed. (forthcoming)

• Camu, A., Réflections sur la Guillotine ; Tehran : Javid Ed. (Forthcoming)

• Barthes, R., Leçon, Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France ; Javid Ed., Tehran : Javid Ed.(Forthcoming).

• Foucault, M. ; Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France ; Tehran : Javid Ed. (Forthcoming).

• Political Violence;

• History and Theories of Anthropology;

• Urban Anthropology

• From Culture to development

• Iranian National and Ethnic Identities : Articulation and Conflict

References

• fa.wikipedi