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The Last Galesh Herdsman: Ethno-linguistic Materials from South Caspian Rainforests

Borjian, Habib; Borjian, Maryam

This article includes part of the linguistic material we documented in 2002 from a galesh ranch in central-eastern Mazandaran. It transcribes, translates, and glosses two texts related by a patriarch on his long, eventful life: the dramatic elopement with the girl he married, his successful family life and career as a pastoral nomad, and his long resistance against the laws forcing the galesh families to evacuate the forest for good. Notwithstanding our dialectological purpose, namely documentation of the largely understudied language of Mazandaran within the long-standing tradition of Iranian philology, the article may also provide raw material for the anthropologist, sociologist, and historian, as it relays an unrecorded tradition just before its total disappearance.

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Iranian Studies
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00210860801981336

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Center for Iranian Studies
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January 10, 2018