Richard Lionel Tapper is a professor emeritus of the

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of the

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. He is a social

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who did

ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

field research in

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and

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. His publications have focussed on pastoral

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ism, relations between

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and

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minorities and the state, the anthropological study of

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, the anthropology of food,

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, 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 ( fa, زیبا میرحسینی; 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 o ...

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

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