This thesis deals with the emergence of the modern state in Iran under the Pahlavi regime from 1926. The emphasis of the examination is on the political encapsulation of two Iranian tribal groups, the Turkmen and the Baluch, and the effects their subordination by the Iranian sta…
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The goal of my project is two-fold. On one level I seek to examine what sort of unit Manasseh was in the past, to the extent this can be ascertained, and on another level I aim to explore how and why it is constructed as it is by later biblical writers. My thesis is tripartite. …
By exploring traditional tribes’ consumption practices within a modernising tribal society, this thesis identifies and examines how tribal customs are embodied and used to affirm tribal identities in Kenya. This thesis explores how and why consumption is used to express individu…
Opening the Land traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribes, a pastoral nomadic people living in the Zagros Mountains of southwest Iran. Based on tribal histories and genealogies, Persian chronicles, archival collections in England, and fieldwork in the Zagros, this thesis expl…