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Iranian Hospitality and Afghan Refugees in the City of Shiraz
in Anthropology of the Middle East
Author:
Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Australian National University elisabeth.yarbakhsh@anu.edu.au
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Derrida’s hostipitalité formulation provides a framework through which we might begin to explore the relationship between Iranian citizen-hosts and Afghan refugee-guests in the city of Shiraz and the surrounding province. Notions of Iranian hospitality thread through multiple and diverse constructions of Iranian selfhood. Religion, poetry and history speak to what it means to be Iranian, marking out categories of Self and Other and, in doing so, exposing the limits of hospitality in the very spaces that the nation is most acutely felt.