Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Baseri tribe
;
Basseri
;
Basseri
Abstract:
In addition to a culture summary, the Basseri collection consists of two anthropological studies by Fredrik Barth. The first, published in 1961, is based on ethnographic materials collected in the period from December 1957 to July 1958 while the author was living with the Danbar tribal section of Basseri. The book describes and analyses Basseri social and economic organization in terms of a general ecological perspective. The focus is on the processes through which the Basseri organize nomadic herding and relate to one another as members of different households, herding units, camps, lineages (oulad) and tribal sections (tira). The second document, published in 1964, discusses the nature of Basseri pastoral economy and its implications for social structure. Together, these documents provide a first-hand account and analysis of Basseri economy and social organization, but contain little information on arts, language, medicine, death and afterlife. The Basseri are a pastoral nomadic people living around Shiraz, capital of the Iranian province of Fars, in land that stretches between deserts in the south to high mountain ranges in the north
Note:
Culture summary: Basseri - Teferi Abate Adem - 2009 -- - Nomads of South-Persia: the Basseri tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy - Frederik Barth - 1961 -- - Capital, investment and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group in south Persia - By Frederik Barth - 1969
