Nomadism in Iran - From Antiquity to the Modern Era

The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• List of illustrations


• List of tables


• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• 1 Nomadism: Concepts and archaeological evidence


• 2 The coming of the Iranians


• 3 Iranian nomads in the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Arsacid periods


• 4 Late Antiquity


• 5 Fom the Islamic conquest to the Oghuz infiltration


• 6 The Mongols and Timurids


• 7 The Aq Qoyunlu and Safavids


• 8 From Karim Khan Zand to World War I


• 9 From World War I to the present


• 10 On nomadism in Iran through time


• Appendix 1. The position of nomadism on the social evolutionary ladder


• References


• Index

About the author

D. T. Potts is Professor of Anient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.

Summary

The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it.

Additional text

offers a broad historical synthesis of pastoralism across the ages, accompanied by extensive bibliographic notes. It addresses a general need for more accessible literature on the political role of nomads, and includes considerable detail on specific transformative moments in the history of Iranian nomadism ... timely and engaging. The accessibility of Potts's book underlines that there is no longer any excuse to omit case-studies of Eurasian transhumant populations from discussions of global political development.

Product details

• Authors: D T Potts, D. T. Potts, D. T. (Professor of Anient Near Eastern Arc Potts, D. T. (Professor of Anient Near Eastern Archaeology Potts, Daniel T Potts, Daniel T. Potts, Potts D. T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199330799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933079-9
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Iran, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, Middle East, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology