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.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1969-1970, 1975
- Coverage Date
- 1920-1975
- Coverage Place
- Luristan Province, western Iran
- Notes
- Jacob Black-Michaud
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index
- LCCN
- 86002223
- LCSH
- Lur (Iranian people)/Sheep industry--Iran--Luristān/Land tenure--Iran--Luristān/Luristān (Iran)--Economic conditions/Luristān (Iran)--Social conditions