Frontier Nomads of Iran
Subtitle: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780521029063
Subjects: Ethnography; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Iran; Middle East - Iran; Political History; Social History; History / Middle East; History : Social History; Political Science : Political History; 20th century; Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925; Shahsevan (Iranian people)
First sentence: In the mid-twentieth century, social scientists of all persuasions expected tribal and ethnic minorities within contemporary nation-states to succumb sooner or later to policies of modernization and national integration , and many were confident that class would replace ethnicity as the major dimension of social identity.