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BASSERI TRIBE : DOMESTIC UNITS
The Basseri count their numbers and describe their camp groups and sections in terms of tents (sing.: khune = house). Each such tent is […]
Basseri Tribe : History, Ecology and Economy
The Basseri are a tribe of tent-dwelling pastoral nomads who migrate in the arid steppes and mountains south, east and north of Shiraz in […]
Mohammad Taqi Khan Chahar Leng in Bakhtiyari Tribe
At the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century most of the Bakhtiyari was under the governorship of the Georgian enunch, Manuchehr […]
Economic Resources of the Khans
In practice the Bakhtiyari territory would appear to be considered the property of the khans of each tayefeh; they determined its use. The ilkhan and ilbeg […]
Tribal Role of the Khans
Mention has been made of the intermediary role of the khans in collecting taxes and conscripting recruits for the government. It will be seen that […]
Historical References of Bakhtiyari Tribe
Perhaps the earliest written reference to the Bakhtiyari dates from approximately 1330 A.D. in Hamdullah Mostaufi‘s Tarikh-e Gozideh, and possibly the earliest written reference to the divisions […]
Bakhtiyari Tribal Organization
The political grouping of the tribes below the Haft Leng and the Chahar Leng have been in a continuous state of change. Briefly, Barth writes, A […]
Bakhtiyari Tribe Origins
The origins of the Bakhtiyari and their division int two major groups of Haft Leng and Chahar Leng” have long puzzled historians and observers of Iran. […]
Symbiotic Land Use in the Zagros
First, the nomads and sedentary population complement each other in their seasonal use of land and pastures. As the Kurds, Lurs, and Bakhtiyari move out of […]