ANTH 208 Lecture 9: Anth. 208 (Classics in Ethnography) Week Nine Lecture Notes
Anth. 208 Week Nine Lecture Notes
Film Notes
● Film on the ‘Forgotten People’ in Asia Minor, the Bakhtari
● Recording migration from Angora that happens annually at least, migration in a train of
caravans across the desert
● Have shelters and refuges set up across the desert, established very long time ago
many made of stone
○ Caravan in search of forgotten people
● Magicians have dogs, also there are apparently some drastic shifts in terrain, hunting
done among the rocky kind
○ Hunt deer, other mammals
● Migration moves east, at one point meets up with another caravan
● Competition between men? Geared towards shooting and fighting, also traditional dance
with sticks
● At one point have to cross a river using a series of rafts, also some recreation goes on at
this point, have to hearn animals (sheep (or maybe goats), cows) across river as well as
transport supplies and such
○ Have to cross the river multiple times in order to reach destination, do this
because can only cross at the most shallow points
● After the river is the crossing of the mountains, tall and snowy, some of the men have to
pre-set up a trail through the snow for the everyone and the pack animals to follow
through
● After mountains reach destination ‘land of milk and honey’ a very large grassland, good
for pasturing animals
Document Summary
Film on the forgotten people" in asia minor, the bakhtari. Recording migration from angora that happens annually at least, migration in a train of caravans across the desert. Have shelters and refuges set up across the desert, established very long time ago many made of stone. Magicians have dogs, also there are apparently some drastic shifts in terrain, hunting done among the rocky kind. Migration moves east, at one point meets up with another caravan. Geared towards shooting and fighting, also traditional dance with sticks. Have to cross the river multiple times in order to reach destination, do this because can only cross at the most shallow points. After the river is the crossing of the mountains, tall and snowy, some of the men have to pre-set up a trail through the snow for the everyone and the pack animals to follow through.
