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Nomads of South Persia

The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy

 

Fredrik Barth

 

In this thorough analysis, Barth explores the features of and the economic, social, and political adaptations to the nomadic, pastoral existence of this tent-dwelling population: the drama of herding and migration; the idleness of a pastoral existence where the herds satisfy the basic needs of man; the freedom, or necessity, of movement through a vast, barren landscape.

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries

 

$15.50 list, 161 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-207-0

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-207-0

© 1961

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Table of Contents

 

1. History, Ecology and Economy
2. Domestic Units
3. Camps
4. Tribe and Sections
5. Chieftainship
6. Attached Gypsy Tribe
7. External Relations
8. Economic Processes
9. Demographic Processes
10. The Forms of Nomadic Organization in South Persia
Appendix. The Ritual Life of the Basseri