Before 1957 little was known about the Basseri of Iran. We now know about their kinship system‚ their political organization‚ their sickness and healing rituals and much more. II. This is how and where the Basseri live. The Basseri are pastoralist nomads. In the late 1950’s there were an estimated 16‚000 Basseri living in Iran. They speak a dialect of Farsi. Very few Basseri speak anything else but some do speak Turkish or Arabic. (Johnson‚ 1996) Twice a year they travel a strip of land “approximately
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smallest and largest vertebrates. The ungulates‚ or large hoofed grazing animals‚ in the Himalayas are of special significance. The rangelands are one of the world’s most extreme environments and‚ undoubtedly‚ the harvest pastoral area on earth still used extensively by nomads. In recent decades‚ many profound changes have taken place on the rangelands of the Himalayas that ate transforming traditional rangeland use‚ altering rangeland conditions and disrupting the lives of herders dependent on the
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and sociopolitical organization. At the end of this paper you should have a basic knowledge of who the Bedouin are‚ where they come from‚ and how they live. The unit of subsistence for the Bedouin of the Middle East is best described as nomads. Pastoral nomads raise herds and depend on livestock. They also migrate from place to place hunting and gather food. (Emanuel Marx‚ June.‚ 1977). Bedouins are nomadic Arabs which inhabit deserts located in the Middle East and the northern parts of Africa
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they affected political development • To consider Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian‚ African‚ and Hindu cultures • To increase student awareness of the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. Chapter 12—Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment‚ 1200–1500 Chapter Learning Objectives • To make students aware of
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March 7‚ 2013 Humanities The Silk Road Rome_____________Central Asia______________Han China | India The Nomads The Silk Road crossed nomadic territory Extreme Agriculture: humans + omega animals Sparce population in a large area Calorie Exchange: 90‚000 calories * Plants- 100‚000 calories * Animals- 10‚000 calories Horse= mobility No borders (territorial imperative )= pastures War; Secure pastures Archery Who are they? Scythians Altaic people * Turks * Mongols
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CHART #2: Thematic Organization COMPARISON THEMES (SCRIPTED):1. Politics 2. Social Structure 3. Economics/Interactions TIME PERIODS: 1. 400-600 CE 2. 600-1000 CE 3. 1000-1450 CE THESIS As the political and social structures of Sub-Saharan Africa developed during the years 400 - 1450 C.E.‚ hierarchy structures based on kinship were maintained‚ however self-contained city-states grew into large empires. BEGINNING TIME PERIOD
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CH 8: Networks of Communication and Exchange‚ 300 B.C.E.—1100C.E. I. The Silk Road * Silk Road—the trade route linking the lands of the Mediterranean with China by way of Mesopotamia‚ Iran‚ and C. Asia. A. Origins of Operations * Parthians—named after homeland east of caspian sea—took over Iran and then Mesopotamia. They were a major force by 247 B.C.E. And had few written resources. There were several wars between the Parthians and the Seleucids‚ and later the Parthians and
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Road is that it was located along the threshold of central Asia. All of the traders share customs with the steppe nomads farther to the East (202). The Chinese were eager to buy western products (203) which were another contributing factor for trade to be in one central area‚ because merchants would flock to that area. Cooperative relations between caravan traders and pastoral nomads in Central Asia grasslands increased. Parthian rulers from Iran were nomadic in origin and helped trade flourish.
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Basseri ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Introduction The Basseri are a nomadic‚ pastoral tribe of the Fars region of present-day Iran. They have formerly been part of the so-called Khamseh confederation. The area that the Basseri migrate in is the steep mountains of South‚ East and North Shiraz. The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that deals with the formal officers of the tribe‚ villagers‚ and
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The main factors that affect distribution of population are natural resources‚ climatic conditions‚ soils‚ cultural factors‚ age of human settlement‚ industrial development and means of transport and communication. The factors affecting distribution of population are described below one by one in a nutshell manner. (i) Natural Resources: The regions having rich wealth of natural resources like coal‚ water‚ minerals and forest wealth favour the growth of population. These resources help in the
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