- Richard Tapper
:"For the New Zealand Olympic swimmer, see
Richard Findlay Tapper ."Richard Lionel Tapper is a professor emeritus of the
School of Oriental and African Studies of theUniversity of London . He is an anthropologist specializing in the nomadic peoples ofIran .Tapper received his master's degree from Cambridge and his doctorate from London (1972).
He was a founding member of the
Afghan Refugee Information Network . (Tapper, 2008)Bibliography
* 1972, "The
Shahsavan of Azarbaijan: a study of political and economic change in a Middle Eastern tribal society" Ph.D. thesis.
* 1979, "Pasture and politics : economics, conflict, and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran" ISBN 0126836604
* 1983, "The Conflict of tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan" ISBN 0312162324
* 1989, "Felt huts, haired tents, scene changes and thought structures: reflections nomads and their dwellings in the Middle East", presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 15-18
* 1990, "Anthropologists, historians, and tribespeople on tribe and state formation in the Middle East" in "Tribes and state formation in the Middle East" ISBN 0520070798
* 1991, editor, "Islam in modern Turkey : religion, politics, and literature in a secular state" ISBN 1850433216
* 1992, editor, "Some minorities in the Middle East"
* 1994, editor, with Sami Zubaida, "Culinary cultures of the Middle East" = "A taste of thyme: culinary cultures of the Middle East" ISBN 1860646034, ISBN 1850437424
* 1997, "Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan" ISBN 0521583365
* 2000, editor, "Ayatollah Khomeini and the modernization of Islamic thought"
* 2002, editor, "The new Iranian cinema: politics, representation and identity" ISBN 1860648037
* 2002, editor, with Jon Thompson, "The nomadic peoples of Iran" ISBN 1898592241
* 2003, editor, with Keith McLachlan, "Technology, tradition and survival: aspects of material culture in the Middle East and central Asia" ISBN 0714649279
* 2006, editor, with Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Islam and democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the quest for reform" ISBN 1845111338
* 2008, "What is 'Afghan culture'?: An anthropologist reflects", Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture. [http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/events/anthonyhyman/42766.pdf]
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