Daniel Bradburd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Bradburd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradburd |
| SIGNATURE | BRADBURD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clarkson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion
Fuzzy boundaries and hard rules
In this article, I describe my use of the institutional review board (IRB) while conducting unfunded research at my institution. I examine the relationship between rule and practice in my research and attempt to outline the assumptions underlying my practical choices
Anthropologists in the field
Being There
Nomads and their trade partners
Fredrik Barth's classic work on Basseris (1961) demonstrated the importance of Iranian pastoral nomads' exchanges with the settled world. In this article I examine historical variations in the nature of exchange relationships and the political and economic context in which these were embedded. I argue that the "friendly" relations described by Barth were an anomaly associated with the Pahlavi dynasty's destruction of tribal elites, and I demonstr…
Toward an understanding of the economics of pastoralism
Sociology
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Producing their fates
Earlier studies of Iranian nomadic pastoralists have stressed the importance of pastoralists' exchange relations with the settled world; however, significant elements of that exchange relationship have been ignored. In particular, little attention has been paid to historic differences in the kinds of commodities pastoral communities produced for exchange or to the implications of those differences. This paper examines three Iranian pastoral commu…
The Qashqa'i of Iran
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Ritual and Southwest Asian Pastoralists
Recent studies of southwest Asian pastoral nomads have generally focused on problems other than their rituals. By default this has tended to leave unchallenged the implication, arising from Barth's classic work (1961), that southwest Asian pastoralists have no meaningful or coherent rituals. This paper demonstrates that the Komachi nomads of southern Iran do have coherent, meaningful rituals that highlight significant distinctions in their social…
The Rules and the Game
Studies of marriage in the Middle East have traditionally been focused on the whys and wherefores of patri-parallel cousin marriage. Recent studies have argued that marriages are more directed by practical concerns than by categorical preferences. The relationship of rules to practice has therefore become problematical. Building on a detailed analysis of marriages contracted among Komachi nomads, this paper clarifies the relationship of rule to p…
National conditions and local-level political structures
Recent theoretical examinations of patron-client relationships suggest that local conditions alone cannot account for their variant forms. Rather, it is argued that local-level relationships can only be explained if seen within a larger political-economic context. This paper employs a model of supralocal determination to account for the nature of patron-client relationships among a tribal population in Kerman Province in south-central Iran. The p…
Volatility of animal wealth among Southwest Asian pastoralists
Ethnology
Never give a shepherd an even break
Problems inherent in the use of hired shepherds by Middle Eastern nomadic pastoralists have been generally overlooked. This paper examines this question and argues that, at least among the Komachi of Kerman, Iran, the employment of shepherds by nomads marks the division of tribal society into classes which parallels the class structure of capitalist societies. The paper then examines the bases and implications of this aspect of Komachi society in…
Never give a shepherd an even break
Problems inherent in the use of hired shepherds by Middle Eastern nomadic pastoralists have been generally overlooked. This paper examines this question and argues that, at least among the Komachi of Kerman, Iran, the employment of shepherds by nomads marks the division of tribal society into classes which parallels the class structure of capitalist societies. The paper then examines the bases and implications of this aspect of Komachi society in…
Fuzzy boundaries and hard rules
In this article, I describe my use of the institutional review board (IRB) while conducting unfunded research at my institution. I examine the relationship between rule and practice in my research and attempt to outline the assumptions underlying my practical choices
Producing their fates
Earlier studies of Iranian nomadic pastoralists have stressed the importance of pastoralists' exchange relations with the settled world; however, significant elements of that exchange relationship have been ignored. In particular, little attention has been paid to historic differences in the kinds of commodities pastoral communities produced for exchange or to the implications of those differences. This paper examines three Iranian pastoral commu…
Being There
Nomads and their trade partners
Fredrik Barth's classic work on Basseris (1961) demonstrated the importance of Iranian pastoral nomads' exchanges with the settled world. In this article I examine historical variations in the nature of exchange relationships and the political and economic context in which these were embedded. I argue that the "friendly" relations described by Barth were an anomaly associated with the Pahlavi dynasty's destruction of tribal elites, and I demonstr…
Toward an understanding of the economics of pastoralism
The Rules and the Game
Studies of marriage in the Middle East have traditionally been focused on the whys and wherefores of patri-parallel cousin marriage. Recent studies have argued that marriages are more directed by practical concerns than by categorical preferences. The relationship of rules to practice has therefore become problematical. Building on a detailed analysis of marriages contracted among Komachi nomads, this paper clarifies the relationship of rule to p…
National conditions and local-level political structures
Recent theoretical examinations of patron-client relationships suggest that local conditions alone cannot account for their variant forms. Rather, it is argued that local-level relationships can only be explained if seen within a larger political-economic context. This paper employs a model of supralocal determination to account for the nature of patron-client relationships among a tribal population in Kerman Province in south-central Iran. The p…
Never give a shepherd an even break
Problems inherent in the use of hired shepherds by Middle Eastern nomadic pastoralists have been generally overlooked. This paper examines this question and argues that, at least among the Komachi of Kerman, Iran, the employment of shepherds by nomads marks the division of tribal society into classes which parallels the class structure of capitalist societies. The paper then examines the bases and implications of this aspect of Komachi society in…
Ethnology
Volatility of animal wealth among Southwest Asian pastoralists
National conditions and local-level political structures
Recent theoretical examinations of patron-client relationships suggest that local conditions alone cannot account for their variant forms. Rather, it is argued that local-level relationships can only be explained if seen within a larger political-economic context. This paper employs a model of supralocal determination to account for the nature of patron-client relationships among a tribal population in Kerman Province in south-central Iran. The p…
Ritual and Southwest Asian Pastoralists
Recent studies of southwest Asian pastoral nomads have generally focused on problems other than their rituals. By default this has tended to leave unchallenged the implication, arising from Barth's classic work (1961), that southwest Asian pastoralists have no meaningful or coherent rituals. This paper demonstrates that the Komachi nomads of southern Iran do have coherent, meaningful rituals that highlight significant distinctions in their social…
The Rules and the Game
Studies of marriage in the Middle East have traditionally been focused on the whys and wherefores of patri-parallel cousin marriage. Recent studies have argued that marriages are more directed by practical concerns than by categorical preferences. The relationship of rules to practice has therefore become problematical. Building on a detailed analysis of marriages contracted among Komachi nomads, this paper clarifies the relationship of rule to p…
The Qashqa'i of Iran
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Producing their fates
Earlier studies of Iranian nomadic pastoralists have stressed the importance of pastoralists' exchange relations with the settled world; however, significant elements of that exchange relationship have been ignored. In particular, little attention has been paid to historic differences in the kinds of commodities pastoral communities produced for exchange or to the implications of those differences. This paper examines three Iranian pastoral commu…
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Sociology
Toward an understanding of the economics of pastoralism
Nomads and their trade partners
Fredrik Barth's classic work on Basseris (1961) demonstrated the importance of Iranian pastoral nomads' exchanges with the settled world. In this article I examine historical variations in the nature of exchange relationships and the political and economic context in which these were embedded. I argue that the "friendly" relations described by Barth were an anomaly associated with the Pahlavi dynasty's destruction of tribal elites, and I demonstr…
Being There
Fuzzy boundaries and hard rules
In this article, I describe my use of the institutional review board (IRB) while conducting unfunded research at my institution. I examine the relationship between rule and practice in my research and attempt to outline the assumptions underlying my practical choices
Anthropologists in the field
Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion
Sociology (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works)