Abstract
Recent studies of southwest Asian pastoral nomads have generally focused on problems other than their rituals. By default this has tended to leave unchallenged the implication, arising from Barth's classic work (1961), that southwest Asian pastoralists have no meaningful or coherent rituals. This paper demonstrates that the Komachi nomads of southern Iran do have coherent, meaningful rituals that highlight significant distinctions in their social order. It suggests that far more data is needed before a final judgment on the place of ritual in these societies can be reached.
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