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'Qanats'

Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society • 31 • Published In 1944 • Pages: 191-202

By: Noel, Colonel E..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This is a fairly technical description of the Persian 'qanats' which conduct water for irrigation. There is an account of the method, technology and cost of their construction and a proposal for a special organization, government supported, to take over construction, maintenance, and supervision of qanats. There is also a list of special terms relevant to qanats. It is well documented that he and his younger brother Kamuran Alí (1895-1978) accompanied Major Noel in his travels through Kurdistan during 1919. Noel was a British intelligence officer whose main assignment was to assess the possibility of the creation of an official nation of Kurdistan. Major Noel was as pro-Kurdish as he was anti-Kemalist.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Water supply

Earth moving

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.

Engineer

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.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Beverly Calsoyas ; 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

1919-1920

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Iran

NotesAdditional notes

Colonel E. Noel

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

89657394

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Iranians