You have full access to this open access article. The archaeology of garbage project was conducted in to investigate the daily garbage of inhabitants of two districts of Tehran. Finding such evidence gave us an alibi to work on the historical documents in order to trace the patterns of prostitution in nineteenth-century Tehran.
This paper is a narrative of prostitution and its transformations with the advent of modernism. It does not render a meta-narrative or a general history of prostitution in the recent history of Iran. The authors try to present a detailed narrative, as far as the sources allow, of everyday life of prostitutes in Tehran, Iran. We also endeavour to develop a chronological framework. This film documents the district, its public and internal parts.
According to the nature of data, we can recognize public and private aspects of prostitution. Fortunately, some historical texts yielded considerable information about the everyday life of prostitutes during the mid- and late-Qajar era the second half of the nineteenth century.
The most important data about prostitution in the Pahlavi era were the documens of the red district, Shahr-e Now new city , also known as Qaleh and Qalamestan, which was completely destroyed by fundamentalists in or e. Shahr-e Now should be considered as the largest red light district of Tehran which has been expanded since late Qajar period It was also the only legal place to prostitute. Presumably, the second one must be the red light district in Abadan, southern Iran which has not been studied.
In contemporary Iran, the most revealing archaeological data on prostitution is literally garbage. In comparison to official reports and archaeological evidence from palaces or administrative centers, an archaeology of garbage provides researchers with significant information about daily life of ordinary people because there is less censorship or secrecy involved e.
