Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey

Daniel G. Bates

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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Publisher: Museum of Anthropology

Year of Publication: 1973

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Pages: 268

Price: $10

Print ISBN: 978-0-915703-64-7

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-951519-19-3

Series / Number: Anthropological Papers No. 52

Tables / Illustrations: 80 b&w figures, tables, and photographs

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