Erika FriedlErika Friedl is the E.E. Meader Professor emerita of Anthropology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A. A Distinguished Faculty Scholar and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Iranian Studies, she ha done some seven years of ethnographic research in an ethnic Lur community in Southwest Iran between 1965-2015, chronicling various aspects of the fast-changing culture. In addition to many articles, she published seven books about her work: Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2021) deals with local Islam; the previous four are on oral literature; the second and first, Children of Deh Koh (Syracuse University Press, 1997) and Women of Deh Koh (Penguin 1991) are on facets of family life. Read More Read Less