Pedram Khosronejad
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Pedram Khosronejad (Persian: پدرام خسرونژاد) (born 1969 Tehran, Iran) is a socio-cultural and visual anthropologist of contemporary Iran. He is of Iranian origin and commenced his studies in Painting (B.A. University of Art, Tehran, Iran) and in Visual Art Research (University of Art, Tehran, Iran) before moving to France with a PhD grant in 2000.
He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is the editor of several publications: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam (I.B.Tauris); Saints and their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighboring Countries (SeanKingston); Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity (SeanKingston); Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies, and the Material Culture of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran (Routledge). He is also chief editor of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME).