essay
Capital, investment and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group in south Persia
Capital, saving and credit in peasant societies: studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and Middle America • Chicago • Published In 1969 • Pages: 69-81, 387-393
By: Barth, Fredrik.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the nature of pastoral economy of the Basseri tribe of Fars, Iran, and its implications for social strcuture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Property in movables
- Inheritance
- Credit
- Saving and investment
- Contracts
- Community heads
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fars Province, Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Frederik Barth
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-393)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63022318
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Baseri tribe