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Based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research, this book traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran. It is a dramatic story, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy and their eventual decline. In its synthesis of anthropology and history, the book will make a major contribution to the study of the Middle East and Central Asia, and also to current debates on tribe-state relations and the relationship between identity and history.
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Richard Tapper's fascinating book traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of Iran's major nomadic peoples, living on the sensitive frontiers of Azarbaijan. The story, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research over more than three decades, is both tragic and dramatic. It recounts the mythical origins of the tribes in the seventeenth century, their unification as a tribal confederacy in the eighteenth century and their eventual decline under the Pahlavi Shahs when they were systematically stripped of both their economic and political influence. Although the confederacy has now ceased to exist, several thousand families of Shahsevan nomads still migrate near the frontier and thousands of other Iranians still acknowledge their identity as Shahsevan.
The book is intended as a contribution to three rather different debates. One concerns the riddle of Shahsevan origins, how and when the confederation was formed, while another considers how far changes in tribal social and political formations are a function of relations with states. The third discusses the relation between identity and history, and asks how different constructions of the identity of a particular people reflect or determine their view of the past. The author's synthetic approach to the history and anthropology of the region promises to make a major contribution to theoretical debates in both disciplines.
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Editorial Board Charles Tripp (general editor) Shaul Bakhash, Michael C. Hudson, Noah Lucas, Deniz Kandiyoti, Rashid Khalidi, Basim Musallam, Roger Owen
Cambridge Middle East Studies has been established to publish books on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East and North Africa. The aim of the series is to provide new and original interpretations of aspects of Middle Eastern societies and their histories. To achieve disciplinary diversity, books will be solicited from authors writing in a wide range of fields including history, sociology, anthropology, political science and political economy. The emphasis will be on producing books offering an original approach along theoretical and empirical lines. The series is intended for students and academics, but the more accessible and wide-ranging studies will also appeal to the interested general reader.
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2 Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski, Redefining the Egyptian nation, 1930-1945
3 Annelies Moors, Women, property and Islam: Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990
4 Paul Kingston, Britain and the politics of modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958
5 Daniel Brown, Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought
6 Nathan J. Brown, The rule of law in the Arab world: courts in Egypt and the Gulf
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Frontier Nomads of Iran
A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan
Richard Tapper School of Oriental and African Studies
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2, 1RP, United Kingdom
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge, CB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia
Richard Tapper 1997
This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 1997
Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge
Typeset in 10/12pt Plantin
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Tapper, Richard. Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan / Richard Tapper. p. cm.(Cambridge Middle East studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 58336 5 (hardcover) 1. Shahsevan (Iranian people) 2. IranHistoryQajar dynasty, 1794-1925. 3. IranHistory 20th century. I. Title. II. Series. DS269.S53T341997
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