Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq

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255 INDEX Abdulhamid II, Sultan, 229n.3 Abdul Rahman, Bayan Sami, 213 Abdul Rahman, Sami, 55, 147–148, 164, 213 Abu Afif confectionery, 55 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 78–79 accent, as cue to place and lineage, 84 accidents: automobile, 105–106; fatal, and blood reprisal, 106, 173 Acton, Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg), 205 Adelkhah, Fariba, 11 agency, through belief in binaries, 221 aghas, 70, 92–95, 237; as antitheses of nouveaux riches, 83–84; chete payments funneled through, 167; dating from early 1800s, 87; diwans, 139; mountain, 99; as patrons, 81 (see also patron-client relationship); status of, vs. peasants, 81 agnation, 3, 78–79. See also patriliny agriculture, 13; early, and accumulation of capital, 16; Iraq loses self-sufficiency in, during Iran-Iraq War, 21–22. See also foodways; herding AIDS, 127 ’a’ila, 7, 237. See also patrilineage aircraft, non-Iraqi, in no-fly zone, 208 air pollution, from cooking fires, 233n.3 alliance, marriage as, 129 Al-Qaeda, 180 alterity, and zero-sum contests, 196 Amed, 233n.6. See also Diyarbakir “America” and the West, fetishization of, 192 American University of Beirut, 170 “American Village” development (suburban Hewler), 222 Amn al Amm, 224 Amnesty International, 224 amulets, 121–122, 233n.5 Anderson, J.N.D., 75 Anfal campaign (1988) against Kurds, 62, 172, 176 anthropology: of globalization, 208; immersion and embodied research, 232–233n.4; kinship studies, 77–80; poststructuralist, 78; “salvage ethnography,” 223; of the state, 208. See also methodology anthropometry, 230n.11 apical ancestor, 77, 80 Appadurai, Arjun, 11, 217 apple orchards, 90, 99 Aqre, border community, 157–158, 158 aqueduct of Sennacherib, 15–16 “Arabization” program, Iraq, 93, 156–157, 176 Arabs: concerns over chastity, 133; patrilineal succession patterns among, 75 “Arab Spring,” 28 Aras, Ramazan, 233n.8 Arendt, Hannah, 182 Aristotle, on monogenesis, 67 Armenians: in Iraqi Kurdistan, 5; massacred by Turks, 229n.3 Article 140, of 2005 Iraqi constitution, 156, 159–161 artisan class, 82 asayish, 149 Assad, Bashar al-, 215 assassinations: raid on Hewler in 1996, 46, 148, 151; of Sami Abdul Rahman, 55, 213; Turkish complicity alleged in, 192 Assyrians, 18: Christian, 233n.4; identity through patriliny, 75; massacred at Simel, 21; nationalist movement in Iraq, 158 asylum, 182; seeker of, vs. refugee, 174 asylum/refuge regimes, complicated by Kurdish migrations, 40 Atran, Scott, 129 Austrian Airlines, 9, 231n.20 autochthony of citizens, state’s claims for, 154 automobiles: accidents, 105–106; women as drivers, 103–111 autonomy: female, limiting of, 7; regional, in Iraq, 156 INDEX 256 azadî, 170, 237 Aziz, Tariq, 153 Badger, George Percy, 186, 187 Badr Khan Beg, 140 Baghdadi, Shaikh Khalid al-, 18 Ballinger, Pamela, 191 band, as political organization, 152 bard (dengbêj), 232n.26 Barth, Fredrik, 6, 8, 129 Barwari, ’Adil Al-, 97 Barwari, Haj Rashid (Rashid Beg) Al-, 97 Barwari, Nesreen, 107 Barwari, urban, retaining village houses, 89 Barwari Bala, map, 92 Barwaris, lineage of the begs, 97 Barzani, Idris, 150 Barzani, Mes’ud, 129, 141, 144, 171, 215 Barzani, Mulla Mustafa, 140, 141, 143, 144, 150, 188 Barzani, Nechirvan, 47, 148–150, 152 Barzani lineage, 144, 165 Basch, Linda, 30, 191 Batatu, Hanna, 234n.8 bathrooms, djinn active in, 122. See also toilets bazaar: vs. “modernity” of Mazi Supermarket complex, 218; women’s visits to, 123, 123 Bedir Khan Beg, 186–187 beg, 95, 237. See also aghas Behdini Kurdish dialect, 19, 154 Bell, Gertrude, 138 betrayal, 148: of 1975 rebellion, by United States, 222; of refugees, by house appropriators, 202 Bhabha, Homi K., 221 bicycle, believed to imperil hymen, 125 binaries, in informants’ narratives, 221 bin Ladin, Osama, 35, 36 Blanc, Cristina Szanton, 30 blood-for-blood reprisal, 106; blood feuds, 36, 40, 118; refugees from, 173, 180 bodies, women’s: in patrogenetic logic, 114; as site of national work, 118–119 bomb casings, creative recycling of, 177, 178 border crossings: by diasporan Kurds, 23; ethnographer’s, 9, 44, 45, 46, 49–50; Syria-Kurdistan, 69 boredom, of city-dwelling women at home, 113 Botan Principality, 187 Bourdieu, Pierre, 129 Bozarslan, Hamit, 53 Braidwood, Robert, 15 Brandes, Stanley, 167 bread baking, 179 Breckenridge, Carol, 217 Brenneman, Robert, 43 Brereton, Derek P., 80 bridewealth, 208, 236n.1 brigandage and thieving, by tribal aghas, 94–95 Britain: Iraq invasion of 2003, 23; League of Nations Mandate for Iraq, 20, 87 brothels, 125 Brown, Wendy, 118 Brubaker, Rogers, 95 Bruinessen, Martin van, 6, 76, 79, 94, 146–147, 164, 181 bus, and women’s mobility, 103 Busch, Nicholas, 192 Bush, George H...