Vol. 4 · No. 1 · 2000
Ambiguity In Law and The Marginalisation Of Sedentarised Nomads Of The Southern Zagros Mountains Of IranSoheila Shahshahani
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Ever since the Iranian Constitution was written in 1906, and measures of modernisation were introduced by the Pahlavi monarchs, many promises were made throughout Iran in the domain of education and law. Few studies have focused on the result of these measures - or indeed, on the result of the measures introduced a generation ago, since the beginning of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This paper on a sedentarised Lor population of the southern Zagros mountains, sets out to study the impact of some of these, notably legal measures. I try to present a holistic view of feud, examining its function in a context that is not only social, but also political - not only in terms of traditional politics, but as lived today in the present political atmosphere.