Book
Nomads of South-Persia: the Basseri tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy
University Press; Humanities Press • (8) • Published In 1961 • Pages: x, 159
By: Barth, Fredrik.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book seeks to describe and analyze the social and economic organization of the Basseri of Fars province (Iran) 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 (oulads), and tribal sections (tira). The book is based on ethnographic materials collected while the author was living with the Darbar tribal section of Basseri for seven months. The author also participated in this groups dramatic seasonal movements across different agro-ecological zones.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Chief executive
- Territorial hierarchy
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Marriage
- Kin relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basseri
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi A. Adem; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1957-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Basseri, Fars Province, Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frederik Barth
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 154)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61004640
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Baseri tribe