Nasser Fakouhi (born 13 May 1956 in Tehran) () is an Iranian anthropologist, writer and translator.
Fakouhi was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He is a professor of anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran and the president of a scientific and multidisciplinary website called Anthropology and Culture (www.anthropology.ir). He is also a member of International Association of Sociology and International Society of Iranian Studies.
Fakouhi obtained his PhD in political anthropology from the University of Paris in 1993. Some of his books are Political Violence, The History and Theories of Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, From Culture to Development, and Iranian National and Ethnic Identities: Articulation and Conflict. He has translated books of authors such as Roland Barthes (Empire of Signs).
Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian intellectual and philosopher, classified Fakouhi, along with figures such as J. Tabatabaii, B. Ahmadi, and F.Sadeghi as "dialogical intellectuals" on contemporary Iran.
Fakouhi's primary field of interest is the social pathology of contemporary Iran and especially the problems concerning the ethnic, communitarian and local identities in their relationship with the global level. He has a large oral and written project about the Modern Iran Cultural history.
Books
Although Fakouhi has published largely in Persian, he has also contributed to chapters in English and French books. He has translated about 20 books from French and English into Persian. He is the author of more than 300 lectures, reviews, notes, essays, and interviews in scientific and public journals and reviews in Persian and a few in English and French.
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