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Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yo¨ru¨k of Southeastern Turkey
Daniel G. Bates
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The Yörük of southeastern Turkey are both farmers and nomads. Every year, some of them migrate with their flocks into the mountains for summer pasture, and then back down to the plains for the winter. Others have chosen to remain settled. Anthropologist Daniel G. Bates lived in Turkey for two years in order to study the tribe. Here he describes the many aspects of tribal life: marriage and kidnapping, descent, residence and household patterns, pasture rights, domestic production and wealth, and settlement patterns.
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Contents
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Introduction
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I. Pastures, Migratory Routes, and the Social Landscape
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The Area of Study
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The Geographic Dimension
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The Social Landscape
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II. The Ideology of Agnatic Descent, Descent Groups, and Segmentation
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Tribe and Lineage Conceptions
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III. Yoruk Normative and Alternative Systems of Marriage
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Culturally Stipulated Preferences of Marriage
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Observed Marriage Frequencies
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Bride Price and Kidnapping
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The Contexts and Causes of Kidnapping
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Kidnapping and the Dispersion of Kinship Ties
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Summary and Final Remarks on Marriage
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IV. Residence and the Formation of New Households Through Separation and Inheritance
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Rules of Post-Marriage Co-Residence and Stated Preferences
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Extended Patrilocality: Fratrilocality
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Filiolocality
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Women and Post-Marriage Residence
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Inheritance and the Formation of New Domestic Units
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Residence Defined by the Proximity of Tents
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The Problem of Dyadic Kin Ties
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V. Camp Groups and the Acquisition of Pasture Rights
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The Contractural Nature of Pasture Rights
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Migration
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Leadership, Economic Differentiation, and Pasture Acquisition
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VI. Domestic Production, Consumption, and the Determinants of Variations in Wealth
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The Herd as the Unit of Production
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Consumption of Market Purchased Commodities
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Limited Partnerships
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Distribution of Wealth in Nomadic Society
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The Domestic Mode of Production
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VII. Nomadic Settlement and Changes in Social Life
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Distribution of Wealth and Settlement
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Group Settlement
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Social Change After Settlement
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VIII. Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Plates
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Published: 1973
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-1-951519-19-3 (ebook)
- 978-0-915703-64-7 (paper)