Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

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Visual Arts

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Cultural Revitalization and Ethnogenesis

Tribe and Nation

External Relations

Political Movements

Military Organization

Topography and Geology

Annual Cycle

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Real Property

Lineages

Rest Days and Holidays

Cult of the Dead

Organized Ceremonial

Termination of Marriage

Polygamy

Theological Systems

Identification

Bibliographies in Sources

History

Kinship Terminology

Writing

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Verbal Arts

Ethnic Stratification

Ritual

Prophets and Ascetics

Religious Denominations

Inheritance

Reviews and Critiques

Sociocultural Trends

Pastoral Activities

Drinking Establishments

Public Structures

Domestic Service

Division of Labor by Gender

Travel Services

Leisure Time Activities

Classes

Community Heads

Taxation and Public Income

Status, Role, and Prestige

Territorial Hierarchy

Chief Executive

Composition of Population

Religious Intolerance and Martyrs

Rules of Descent

Clans

Population

Domesticated Animals

Internal Trade

Internal Migration

Labor Supply and Employment

Labor Relations

Public Welfare

Aftermath of Combat

Ingroup Antagonisms

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Nuptials

Residence

Household

Tillage

Arboriculture

Special Crops

Diet

Location

Historical Reconstruction

Ethos

Cultural Participation

Serfdom and Peonage

Community Structure

Inter-Community Relations

Speech

Citizenship

Talent Mobility

Material Not Relevant

Legal Norms

Judicial Authority

Priesthood

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Ethnogeography

Climate

Cordage

Ceramic Technology

Linguistic Identification

CULTURE SUMMARY: KURDS

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

Demography

SUBSISTENCE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

DIVISION OF LABOR

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

INHERITANCE

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The Kurds speak the Kurdish language, an Indo-European language most closely related to Persian. They inhabit the mountainous crescent that extends from the Euphrates River in northern Syria and Turkey to the Kermanshah in Iran. Having no state of their own, they live in today's Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and the former USSR. Historically, this area has been a buffer between empires. The Kurds have long fought for autonomy, either as self-governing provinces or as an independent nation-state. Most Kurds live in agricultural villages. Some Kurds live as nomadic pastoralists. Kurds converted to Islam in the seventh century AD.

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