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Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy.
by Barth, Fredrik
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- Hardcover
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Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Iran bfns Barth, Fredrik. Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1961, 161 pages, illus, black and white photos, charts, bib, index. Originally issued in paperback but now bound in yellow library buckram cloth with black lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcovers. This was a complimentary copy to a Persian scholar who almost never made any notes or the like in his books. He would also have the paperback volumes bound in sturdy library buckram. Both the hardcover binding and the text are like new. $14.50 Box B7
Contents: History, Ecology & Economy; Domestic Units; Camps; Tribe & Sections; Chieftainship; Attached Gypsy Tribe; External Relations; Economic Processes; Demographic Processes; The Forms of Nomadic Organization in South Persia; Appendix: The Ritual Life of the Basseri.
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- Bookseller
- Focloir
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Iran bfns
- Title
- Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy.
- Author
- Barth, Fredrik
- Format/Binding
- Fine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co,
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961,
- Pages
- 161
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Persia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle East; islam; Persia/Iran history and culture; From the Levant to the Indus;
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