ketman

You might say I belonged to what Milosz called the ketman society—he defined ketman as the false stance adopted by a person “in order to find himself at one with others, in order not to be alone.”

A day of epiphany ... Frank Wilson 2007

In what I like to think of as a homage to ketman, Pezeshkzad illuminates the private codes and allusions in which the participants convey discrepant meanings to one another, and also perpetuate the mythology of foreign conspiracy.

The Persian Version 2006

An example of the low would be alcoholic ketman, whereby even those Iranians who do not touch the bottle make sure to have wine or liquor, often homebrewed, in their houses, for the benefit of guests — a small etiquette of defiance by the abstemious.

The Persian Version 2006

An example of the low would be alcoholic ketman, whereby even those Iranians who do not touch the bottle make sure to have wine or liquor, often homebrewed, in their houses, for the benefit of guests — a small etiquette of defiance by the abstemious.

The Persian Version 2006

If this is ketman — the apparent sharing of a belief with those who despise and oppress her — it is the price of her ticket.

The Persian Version 2006

In what I like to think of as a homage to ketman, Pezeshkzad illuminates the private codes and allusions in which the participants convey discrepant meanings to one another, and also perpetuate the mythology of foreign conspiracy.

The Persian Version 2006

If this is ketman — the apparent sharing of a belief with those who despise and oppress her — it is the price of her ticket.

The Persian Version 2006

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi views matters from still another perspective: the special ketman of ironic cartooning.

The Persian Version 2006

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi views matters from still another perspective: the special ketman of ironic cartooning.

The Persian Version 2006

Milosz subdivided ketman under communism into various types — “professional,” “aesthetic,” “skeptical,” and “ethical.”

The Persian Version 2006