Abstract
Recent theoretical examinations of patron-client relationships suggest that local conditions alone cannot account for their variant forms. Rather, it is argued that local-level relationships can only be explained if seen within a larger political-economic context. This paper employs a model of supralocal determination to account for the nature of patron-client relationships among a tribal population in Kerman Province in south-central Iran. The paper shows that in prerevolutionary Iran patrons derived material benefits from their clients while political clientism was absent. I argue that these local conditions arose through the overlay of Mohammad Reza Shah's oil-based centralization of political power upon the already present, general pattern of an upward flow of wealth that characterized 19th- and 20th-century Iran/Persia. [political anthropology, Middle East, patron-client relations, state power and revenue, Iran]
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