Abstract
The initial chapter is divided into three sections. The first one, entitled The Call of the Cricket: Within and Beyond Postcolonialism, discusses the theoretical perspective applied in this book. It proposes postcolonialism as intertwining different topics and other methodological approaches. The main idea of this book, as highlighted in this Introduction, is to go beyond the dominant narratives in relation to Kurdistan, which focus on wars, politics and conflicts, and to explore the little-known and less popular aspects of Kurdistan’s reality. After a brief introduction to the system of transcription used in the book (section two), the third section, Kurdistan and its inhabitants offers a concise historical background describing the reality of Kurds and other ethnic and religious groups in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria as well as in South Caucasus and other diasporas.
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There is also a group called Shabaks living around Mosul. Many of their beliefs overlap with those of Ahle Haqq.
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The Halabja governorate was separated in 2014 from Silemani province and embraces three districts: Byara, Khumral and Sirwan.
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Bocheńska, J., Kurpiewska-Korbut, R., Kaczorowski, K., Rzepka, M., Lalik, K., Rodziewicz, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Bocheńska, J. (eds) Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93088-6_1
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