Book
Sheep and land: the economics of power in a tribal society
Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme • Cambridge • Published In 1986 • Pages: xiv, 231
By: Black-Michaud, Jacob.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The major theme of this monograph deals with the relationship of pastoral nomads and sedentary villagers living in conditions of intensive symbiosis with one another in Luristan Province, western Iran. In the first part of the book the author looks at Luristan as a regional whole and examines how different segments of the tribal population relate to each other by means of several complementary forms of economic production in both the sedentary agricultural and the nomadic pastoral spheres. In the second part, of this work, the focus is more upon nomadism in an attempt to fill certain lacunae of an ethnographic and analytical character that have been left out of previous studies of Middle-Eastern pastoralism. The third and final section of this study presents a brief account of the substantial modifications that Luri society was undergoing in the mid-1970s as a result of development orientations at the national level (p. 5).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Cultural identity and pride
- Annual cycle
- Applied animal science
- Pastoral activities
- Dairying
- Real property
- Income and demand
- Ownership and control of capital
- Classes
- Social relationships and groups
- Lineages
- Tribe and nation
- Contracts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lur
- 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.
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1970, 1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luristan Province, western Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jacob Black-Michaud
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86002223
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lur (Iranian people)/Sheep industry--Iran--Luristān/Land tenure--Iran--Luristān/Luristān (Iran)--Economic conditions/Luristān (Iran)--Social conditions