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Nomad-Sedentary Interethnic Relations in Iran and Afghanistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Abraham Rosman  and
Paula G. Rubel
Abraham Rosman
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University
Paula G. Rubel
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University
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The following is a report of a pilot study on nomad-sedentary relations viewed in terms of exchange. The study was conducted in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and in the central Hazarajat of Afghanistan during the summer of 1971. The research involved the application in a field situation of a theoretical framework that links exchange and social structure. In previous research we had investigated the relationship between social structure and exchange in societies having a particular kind of exchange system—the potlatch. Utilizing Levi-Strausss approach to structure, we have taken certain kinds of rules, preferential marriage rules or rules of succession, and built models of social structure on the basis of such rules (Levi-Strauss, 1963). These were related to other models based upon the analysis of exchange behavior. In an earlier volume, Feasting with Mine Enemy, we demonstrated the applicability of this approach in our analysis of six Northwest Coast societies by relating their different forms of social structure to the variations they exhibited in their potlatch activity (Rosman and Rubel, 1971). The purpose of the pilot study reported on here was to apply our conceptual framework relating exchange and social structure to more complex social systems.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 545 - 570
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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