From the Achaemenids to Somoni: national identity and iconicity in the landscape of Dushanbe’s capitol complex
@article{Hughes2017FromTA, title={From the Achaemenids to Somoni: national identity and iconicity in the landscape of Dushanbe’s capitol complex}, author={Katherine Hughes}, journal={Central Asian Survey}, year={2017}, volume={36}, pages={511 - 533} }
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the iconicity of contemporary Dushanbe’s capitol complex, with its state-sponsored architecture and memorial culture, part of the government of Tajikistan’s national identity construction. Dushanbe’s architecture post-independence is actant, a mnemonic and iconographical bridge between the present and favoured historical periods in a quest for national origins. A bricolage of historical symbols, including those of Achaemenid Iran and the early Islamic Samanids…
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