Richard Tapper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163939 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Tapper |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Tapper |
| FIRMA | TAPPER R |
| AFILIACIONES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5463-3191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Our Toil and God's Blessing
There are many photobooks of Iran’s tribal peoples, in which outstanding photos are usually accompanied by minimal, misinformed and misleading text. There are also several dozen text-based ethnogra
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Maryam's story
In the early 1970s we made more than 100 hours of tape recordings, as part of our ethnographic fieldwork among the Piruzai, Pashtun farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists in northern Afghanistan. These village voices create a remarkable community self-portrait of a social world now lost and irretrievable. Maryam's story is the perfect exemplar of an unconventional form of auto-ethnography. Maryam was married some thirty years before, as part of a …
Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan
L'auteur reprend ici l'analyse de « la tribu et l'État en Iran et en Afghanistan » issue d'une conférence qu'il avait organisée en 1979. Il constate que les thèmes abordés à cette occasion sont toujours d'actualité compte tenu des bouleversements politiques et sociaux des trois dernières décennies consécutifs aux révolutions intervenues dans ces deux pays. S'il y a une résurgence du tribalisme, les formes et fonctions des « tribus » ont considéra…
Who are the Kuchi? Nomad self-identities in Afghanistan
Kuchi', an Afghan Persian word meaning 'those who go on migrations', is the common generic term, used by both Afghans and foreigners, for the nomads of Afghanistan, as it has been for many decades. Most if not all the nomads, and indeed many long-settled former nomads, now acknowledge this name, yet in the 1960s and 1970s few of those so labelled used the term for themselves. This article examines the usage of both 'Kuchi' and 'nomad', and locate…
Islam and Democracy in Iran
In today s world all eyes are on Iran, which has grappled with an experiment that has had a massive global impact. For some, the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the triumph of a modern, political Islam, heralding Muslim justice and economic prosperity. Others, including many of the original revolutionaries, saw religious fanatics attempting to roll back time by creating a despotic theocracy. Either way, the Iranian Revolution changed the Muslim…
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Writing tribal history Part I. The Safavid State and the Origins of the Shahsevan: 2. 'Shahsevani': Safavid tribal policy and practice 3. Shahsevan traditions 4. Moghan and Ardabil in Safavid times Part II. The Rise of the Shahsevan Confederacy: 5. Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli 6. Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil 7. The Shahsevan tribal confederacy Part III. The Shahsevan Tribes in the Great Game: 8. The Russian wars and the loss of Moghan 9. The…
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Frontier Nomads of Iran
D
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SAUDI ARABIA. By J. E. Peterson. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 14). Metuchen, NJ and London, Scarecrow Press, 1993. xxii, 244 pp. £29.25. THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD (4 volumes). Editor in Chief John L Esposito. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995. MUSLIM WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Michelle R. Kimball and Barbara R. Von Schlegell. Boulder, CO and London, Lynne Rienner, 1…
What is this Thing called “Ethnography”
A Multi-Volume, Multi-Author Encyclopaedia Such as this is a Desktop library; but, more than any library, it represents a set of conscious editorial decisions. The basis of these decisions (if, as is common, the editors do not make it explicit to the reader) may be inferred not just from the choice of topics, but from the balance between them, and from the length and nature of entries. In every case, choice and balance must be largely determined …
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Richard Tapper's 1997 book, which is based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research, traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran. The story is a dramatic one, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy, and their decline under the Pahlavi Shahs. The book is intended as a contribution to three different debates. The fi…
Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam
L'A. passe en revue les diverses propositions pour une « anthropologie islamique» et leur relation avec l'« anthropologie de l'Islam ». L'anthropologie islamique aborde les phenomenes sociaux et culturels sur la base de valeurs / principes islamiques a l'aide de techniques analytiques derivant des textes et traditions islamiques. Cette approche a ete denigree. Toutes les anthropologies sont prisonnieres de leurs affirmations et definitions. Cela …
B. Reviews and notes
LE MONDE ARABE ET MUSULMAN AU MIROIR DE L'UNIVERSITE FRANÇAISE: REPERTOIRE DES THESES SOUTENUES DANS LES UNIVER‐SITES FRANÇAISES, EN SCIENCES DE L'HOMME ET DE LA SOCIETE, SUR LE MONDE ARABE ET MUSULMAN (1973–1987). By MARIE BURGAT, DANIELLE BRUCHET, JACQUELINE QUILET [& others]. Aix‐en‐Provençe, Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, 1989–92. 4 vols. MAPAS, PLANOS Y FORTIFICACIONES HISPANICOS DE MARRUECOS (S.XVI‐XX)/CAR…
Non‐fiction reviews
The Government They Deserve: the role of the elite in Sudan's political evolution. by Mansour Khalid, London: Keegan Paul International. 1990. 480pp. £25.00hb The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier. by Amy Wilentz, London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 427pp. £14.95hb Mau Mau: an African crucible. by Robert B Edgerton, London: IB Tauris. 1990. 310pp. £14.94hb A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980. by William R Ochieng (ed), London: Evans Brothers. 1989. 259…
The Cambridge History of Iran
This final volume of The Cambridge History of Iran covers the period from 1722 to 1979. Part I sets out the political framework. Beginning in the reign of Nadir Shah, it traces the establishment of the Qajar dynasty and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi autocracy. Part II discusses relations with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, European countries, Britain and British India. Part III covers economic and social developments, including systems of land te…
Future reviews
Yet more on the Islamic revival The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser. London & Sydney: Croom Helm with Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 1987. 329pp. £25.00hb From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand. London: Macmillan, with St Antony's College, Oxford. 1984. 256pp. £33.00hb Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse…
History and Identity among the Shahsevan
Until recently, a dominant approach in the history and anthropology of the Middle East has rested on the assumption that an “ethnic” or “tribal” group is, or approximates, a biologically self-perpetuating population, sharing elements of a common culture and identifying itself and being identified with others as a separate category. This fundamentally objectivist approach is a refinement of an older anthropological tradition in which “cultures” ar…
The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush
Toward Islamic Anthropology
The Birth of the Prophet
Peasant's Pilgrimage
Raiding, reaction and rivalry
The Shāhsevan tribes of Azarbayjan were involved in various important events during the Constitutional period. In spring 1908, border incidents in Shāhsevan territory, between tribesmen and Russian frontier guards, provided the Russians with a pretext for military intervention in Azarbayjan on a scale which hastened the fall of the Constitutionalist government in Tehran. During the winter of 1908-9, there were some Shāhsevan among the reactionary…
The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan
Eat This, It'll Do You a Power of Good
Food, eating, and commensality among the Durrani Pashtuns are discussed in terms of four domains of discourse: the Koranic, the Tribal, the Humoral, and the Magical. Each domain is related to a distinct section of the Afghan-Islamic Great Tradition. The domains offer alternative frames of reference between which actors switch according to context, in order to preserve recognition of the ultimate priority of Islam and to conceal relations of power…
The Birth of the Prophet
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Pasture and Politics
Who are the Kuchi? Nomad self-identities in Afghanistan
Kuchi', an Afghan Persian word meaning 'those who go on migrations', is the common generic term, used by both Afghans and foreigners, for the nomads of Afghanistan, as it has been for many decades. Most if not all the nomads, and indeed many long-settled former nomads, now acknowledge this name, yet in the 1960s and 1970s few of those so labelled used the term for themselves. This article examines the usage of both 'Kuchi' and 'nomad', and locate…
Eat This, It'll Do You a Power of Good
Food, eating, and commensality among the Durrani Pashtuns are discussed in terms of four domains of discourse: the Koranic, the Tribal, the Humoral, and the Magical. Each domain is related to a distinct section of the Afghan-Islamic Great Tradition. The domains offer alternative frames of reference between which actors switch according to context, in order to preserve recognition of the ultimate priority of Islam and to conceal relations of power…
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Writing tribal history Part I. The Safavid State and the Origins of the Shahsevan: 2. 'Shahsevani': Safavid tribal policy and practice 3. Shahsevan traditions 4. Moghan and Ardabil in Safavid times Part II. The Rise of the Shahsevan Confederacy: 5. Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli 6. Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil 7. The Shahsevan tribal confederacy Part III. The Shahsevan Tribes in the Great Game: 8. The Russian wars and the loss of Moghan 9. The…
Men of Influence in Nuristan
Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam
L'A. passe en revue les diverses propositions pour une « anthropologie islamique» et leur relation avec l'« anthropologie de l'Islam ». L'anthropologie islamique aborde les phenomenes sociaux et culturels sur la base de valeurs / principes islamiques a l'aide de techniques analytiques derivant des textes et traditions islamiques. Cette approche a ete denigree. Toutes les anthropologies sont prisonnieres de leurs affirmations et definitions. Cela …
Religion and Politics in Muslim Society
List of maps and figures Preface Abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. Models and methods 2. Waziristan: land, lineage, and culture 3. History as an expression of agnatic rivalry Part II. Observation: 4. Strategy and conflict in Waziristan 5. Order ideology, and morality in Waziristan 6. Economic development and reinforcement of ideology in Waziristan Part III. Participation: 7. The anthropologist as political agent 8. The political agent as ant…
Toward Islamic Anthropology
Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan
L'auteur reprend ici l'analyse de « la tribu et l'État en Iran et en Afghanistan » issue d'une conférence qu'il avait organisée en 1979. Il constate que les thèmes abordés à cette occasion sont toujours d'actualité compte tenu des bouleversements politiques et sociaux des trois dernières décennies consécutifs aux révolutions intervenues dans ces deux pays. S'il y a une résurgence du tribalisme, les formes et fonctions des « tribus » ont considéra…
Frontier Nomads of Iran
What is this Thing called “Ethnography”
A Multi-Volume, Multi-Author Encyclopaedia Such as this is a Desktop library; but, more than any library, it represents a set of conscious editorial decisions. The basis of these decisions (if, as is common, the editors do not make it explicit to the reader) may be inferred not just from the choice of topics, but from the balance between them, and from the length and nature of entries. In every case, choice and balance must be largely determined …
History and Identity among the Shahsevan
Until recently, a dominant approach in the history and anthropology of the Middle East has rested on the assumption that an “ethnic” or “tribal” group is, or approximates, a biologically self-perpetuating population, sharing elements of a common culture and identifying itself and being identified with others as a separate category. This fundamentally objectivist approach is a refinement of an older anthropological tradition in which “cultures” ar…
Raiding, reaction and rivalry
The Shāhsevan tribes of Azarbayjan were involved in various important events during the Constitutional period. In spring 1908, border incidents in Shāhsevan territory, between tribesmen and Russian frontier guards, provided the Russians with a pretext for military intervention in Azarbayjan on a scale which hastened the fall of the Constitutionalist government in Tehran. During the winter of 1908-9, there were some Shāhsevan among the reactionary…
Shāhsevan in ṣafavid Persia
The Shāhsevan tribes of Persia are a heterogeneous collection of groups brought together in a confederation of that name some time between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The question of how and when this confederation was formed is something of a riddle, which arises from the following considerations
Tribal Society and Its Enemies
Black Sheep, White Sheep and Red-Heads
Black Sheep, White Sheep and Red-Heads
Shāhsevan in ṣafavid Persia
The Shāhsevan tribes of Persia are a heterogeneous collection of groups brought together in a confederation of that name some time between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The question of how and when this confederation was formed is something of a riddle, which arises from the following considerations
Men of Influence in Nuristan
Tribal Society and Its Enemies
Pasture and Politics
Hayder Ibrahim
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Religion and Politics in Muslim Society
List of maps and figures Preface Abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. Models and methods 2. Waziristan: land, lineage, and culture 3. History as an expression of agnatic rivalry Part II. Observation: 4. Strategy and conflict in Waziristan 5. Order ideology, and morality in Waziristan 6. Economic development and reinforcement of ideology in Waziristan Part III. Participation: 7. The anthropologist as political agent 8. The political agent as ant…
Peasant's Pilgrimage
Raiding, reaction and rivalry
The Shāhsevan tribes of Azarbayjan were involved in various important events during the Constitutional period. In spring 1908, border incidents in Shāhsevan territory, between tribesmen and Russian frontier guards, provided the Russians with a pretext for military intervention in Azarbayjan on a scale which hastened the fall of the Constitutionalist government in Tehran. During the winter of 1908-9, there were some Shāhsevan among the reactionary…
The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan
Eat This, It'll Do You a Power of Good
Food, eating, and commensality among the Durrani Pashtuns are discussed in terms of four domains of discourse: the Koranic, the Tribal, the Humoral, and the Magical. Each domain is related to a distinct section of the Afghan-Islamic Great Tradition. The domains offer alternative frames of reference between which actors switch according to context, in order to preserve recognition of the ultimate priority of Islam and to conceal relations of power…
The Birth of the Prophet
Future reviews
Yet more on the Islamic revival The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser. London & Sydney: Croom Helm with Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 1987. 329pp. £25.00hb From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand. London: Macmillan, with St Antony's College, Oxford. 1984. 256pp. £33.00hb Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse…
History and Identity among the Shahsevan
Until recently, a dominant approach in the history and anthropology of the Middle East has rested on the assumption that an “ethnic” or “tribal” group is, or approximates, a biologically self-perpetuating population, sharing elements of a common culture and identifying itself and being identified with others as a separate category. This fundamentally objectivist approach is a refinement of an older anthropological tradition in which “cultures” ar…
The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush
Toward Islamic Anthropology
The Cambridge History of Iran
This final volume of The Cambridge History of Iran covers the period from 1722 to 1979. Part I sets out the political framework. Beginning in the reign of Nadir Shah, it traces the establishment of the Qajar dynasty and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi autocracy. Part II discusses relations with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, European countries, Britain and British India. Part III covers economic and social developments, including systems of land te…
Non‐fiction reviews
The Government They Deserve: the role of the elite in Sudan's political evolution. by Mansour Khalid, London: Keegan Paul International. 1990. 480pp. £25.00hb The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier. by Amy Wilentz, London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 427pp. £14.95hb Mau Mau: an African crucible. by Robert B Edgerton, London: IB Tauris. 1990. 310pp. £14.94hb A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980. by William R Ochieng (ed), London: Evans Brothers. 1989. 259…
B. Reviews and notes
LE MONDE ARABE ET MUSULMAN AU MIROIR DE L'UNIVERSITE FRANÇAISE: REPERTOIRE DES THESES SOUTENUES DANS LES UNIVER‐SITES FRANÇAISES, EN SCIENCES DE L'HOMME ET DE LA SOCIETE, SUR LE MONDE ARABE ET MUSULMAN (1973–1987). By MARIE BURGAT, DANIELLE BRUCHET, JACQUELINE QUILET [& others]. Aix‐en‐Provençe, Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, 1989–92. 4 vols. MAPAS, PLANOS Y FORTIFICACIONES HISPANICOS DE MARRUECOS (S.XVI‐XX)/CAR…
Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam
L'A. passe en revue les diverses propositions pour une « anthropologie islamique» et leur relation avec l'« anthropologie de l'Islam ». L'anthropologie islamique aborde les phenomenes sociaux et culturels sur la base de valeurs / principes islamiques a l'aide de techniques analytiques derivant des textes et traditions islamiques. Cette approche a ete denigree. Toutes les anthropologies sont prisonnieres de leurs affirmations et definitions. Cela …
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Richard Tapper's 1997 book, which is based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research, traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran. The story is a dramatic one, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy, and their decline under the Pahlavi Shahs. The book is intended as a contribution to three different debates. The fi…
D
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SAUDI ARABIA. By J. E. Peterson. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 14). Metuchen, NJ and London, Scarecrow Press, 1993. xxii, 244 pp. £29.25. THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD (4 volumes). Editor in Chief John L Esposito. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995. MUSLIM WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Michelle R. Kimball and Barbara R. Von Schlegell. Boulder, CO and London, Lynne Rienner, 1…
What is this Thing called “Ethnography”
A Multi-Volume, Multi-Author Encyclopaedia Such as this is a Desktop library; but, more than any library, it represents a set of conscious editorial decisions. The basis of these decisions (if, as is common, the editors do not make it explicit to the reader) may be inferred not just from the choice of topics, but from the balance between them, and from the length and nature of entries. In every case, choice and balance must be largely determined …
Frontier Nomads of Iran
Writing tribal history Part I. The Safavid State and the Origins of the Shahsevan: 2. 'Shahsevani': Safavid tribal policy and practice 3. Shahsevan traditions 4. Moghan and Ardabil in Safavid times Part II. The Rise of the Shahsevan Confederacy: 5. Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli 6. Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil 7. The Shahsevan tribal confederacy Part III. The Shahsevan Tribes in the Great Game: 8. The Russian wars and the loss of Moghan 9. The…
Frontier Nomads of Iran
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