Producing their fates: why poor Basseri settled but poor Komachi and Yomut did not

Earlier studies of Iranian nomadic pastoralists have stressed the importance of pastoralists' exchange relations with the settled world; however, significant elements of that exchange relationship have been ignored. In particular, little attention has been paid to historic differences in the ki...

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Published in:American ethnologist 1989-08, Vol.16 (3), p.502-517
Main Author: BRADBURD, DANIEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Americas
Animal husbandry
Asia
Carpets
Communities
Economics
Ethnology
Farming
Herds
Morphological source materials
Pastoral nomads
Pastoralism
Peasants
Poor
Population growth
Public records
Sheep herding
Social life & customs
Wealth
Wool
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Summary:Earlier studies of Iranian nomadic pastoralists have stressed the importance of pastoralists' exchange relations with the settled world; however, significant elements of that exchange relationship have been ignored. In particular, little attention has been paid to historic differences in the kinds of commodities pastoral communities produced for exchange or to the implications of those differences. This paper examines three Iranian pastoral communities and shows that differences in the products they exchanged are associated with different labor requirements, which are, in turn, associated with such significant aspects of the communities' social organization as their use or non-use of hired shepherding labor and the passing from the community of impoverished households. [pastoralists, Iran, economic organization, economic history]
ISSN:0094-0496
1548-1425
DOI:10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00060