Basseri : MA10.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Areas Files, 2009-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=MA10
Subjects

Included WorkAdem, Teferi Abate. Culture summary, Basseri.
Included WorkBarth, Fredrik, 1928-2016 Nomads of South-Persia.
Included WorkBarth, Fredrik, 1928-2016 Capital, investment and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group in south Persia.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Middle East. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Culture summary, Basseri / Teferi Abate Adem -- Nomads of South-Persia ; Capital, investment and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group in south Persia / Fredrik Barth.
Abstract In addition to a culture summary, the Basseri collection consists of two anthropological studies by Fredrik Barth. The first, published in 1961, is based on ethnographic materials collected in the period from December 1957 to July 1958 while the author was living with the Danbar tribal section of Basseri. The book describes and analyses Basseri social and economic organization in terms of a general ecological perspective. The focus is on the processes through which the Basseri organize nomadic herding and relate to one another as members of different households, herding units, camps, lineages (oulad) and tribal sections (tira). The second document, published in 1964, discusses the nature of Basseri pastoral economy and its implications for social structure. Together, these documents provide a first-hand account and analysis of Basseri economy and social organization, but contain little information on arts, language, medicine, death and afterlife. The Basseri are a pastoral nomadic people living around Shiraz, capital of the Iranian province of Fars, in land that stretches between deserts in the south to high mountain ranges in the north.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Mar. 29, 2010).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was first released in 2009.

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