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82 4/12 - Barth's Persian nomads (contd) sheep & some goats 400 about max herd can handle, no sheep dogs, min 60 to support a family; buy tools, grain food & veg from settled agriculturalists & sell wool, meat & hides pasturalists try to kill as few animals as poss. since ewe will continue producing lambs, milk & butter & both ewes & rams produce wool need body of men to protect herds from raiders from other groups owner of a flock has rt. to decide when to move & whether to stay w/ large group or not dangerous, however, to get to isolated because raiders more likely to attack as sons grow up each gets a share based on size of herd at that time - - if 4 sons, the oldest gets 1/4 when he marries, the next gets 1/3 of remainder when he marries etc. each son becomes pol. [[politically]] & soc. [[socially]] autonomous when marries pol. [[politically]] advantageous, however, to stay in [[end page]] [[start page]] 83 father's camp & form alliance w/ father & brothers that boy is strange! ecol. circumstances force the movement up the mtns in summer & down in winter conceptual model of a moving box migration timed so come thru settled villages at time stubble in fields & from farmers pt of view get manuer Barth suprised [[surprised]] at how little info. flow between camps above the family head no pol levels till the Khan, who is an absolute ruler Khan spends part of the time in urban areas Khan need not follow any trad laws & can order death of any man don't obviously bring a case to the Khan except as a last resort why have a Khan? 1. need some way to settle disputes between camps