Richard Lionel Tapper is a professor emeritus of the

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of the

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. He is a social

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

who did

ethnographic Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

field research in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

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and

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. His publications have focussed on pastoral

nomad Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the population of nomadic pa ...

ism, relations between

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and

tribal The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

minorities and the state, the anthropological study of

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, the anthropology of food,

Iranian cinema The cinema of Iran (), or of Name of Iran, Persia, refers to the film industry in Iran. In particular, Iranian art films have garnered international recognition. Iranian films are usually written and spoken in the Persian language. Iran has bee ...

, and Iranian religious politics.

Bibliography

* 1979, ''Pasture and politics : economics, conflict, and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran'' * 1983 (and 2011), ''The Conflict of tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan'' * 1991, editor, ''Islam in modern Turkey : religion, politics, and literature in a secular state'' * 1992, editor, ''Some minorities in the Middle East'' * 1994 (2nd edition 2001), editor, with Sami Zubaida, ''Culinary cultures of the Middle East'' = ''A taste of thyme: culinary cultures of the Middle East'' , * 1997, ''Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan'' * 2000, editor, ''Ayatollah Khomeini and the modernization of Islamic thought'' * 2002, editor, ''The new Iranian cinema: politics, representation and identity'' * 2002, editor, with Jon Thompson, ''The nomadic peoples of Iran'' * 2003, editor, with Keith McLachlan, ''Technology, tradition and survival: aspects of material culture in the Middle East and central Asia'' * 2006, with

Ziba Mir-Hosseini Ziba Mir-Hosseini (; born 3 April 1952) is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development. She received her PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University and is the author of several books on Islam, gend ...

, ''Islam and democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the quest for reform''

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