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Persia (Iran)
Middle East • London • Published In 1953 • Pages: 239-263
By: Anonymous.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the preparation of this article for inclusion in the file, technical reasons necessitated changing the pagination. Thus, file slips numbered page 242 a, b, c, and d are, in the original publication, all page 242. This compilation of factual information, concerning the agriculture, airlines, area and population, banking and currency, broadcasting, chambers of commerce, climate, the constitution, diplomatic representatives, education, foreign trade, fisheries, geography, history, industry, insurance companies, land tenure, languages, the legal system, libraries, minerals, museums, political parties, the press, prices, public finance, publishers, race, railways, religion, roads, shipping, transport, trade and industrial organizations, universities and colleges of Iran, gives a competent summary of contemporary Iranian institutions. Tables are supplied with recent agricultural, commercial, currency circulation, public finance, and price index data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External trade
- Government institutions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Elizabeth Young ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1925-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Anonymous
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians