Saleem Al-Bahloly, Graduate Student

Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Research

Saleem Al-Bahloly is writing a dissertation about how during the 1960s and
1970s a form of allegory developed in the modern art of Iraq that
constructed an image of the human, both related to and different from that
internal to the discourse of human rights.  Integrating Levi-Strauss and
Aby Warburg, the dissertation consists of an ethnography of forms in order
to ask questions about art in secular modernity, universality, and the
human.