“Black sheep, white sheep and red-heads: a historical sketch of the Shahsavan of Azarbayjan”
Iran 41966
pp. 61-84. (Translated into Persian as “Shahsavan (Qaraqoyunlu-ha, Aqqoyunlu-ha)”, Bar-rasi-ha-ye Tarikhi 3, 1347/1968.)
“Shahsevan in Safavid Persia”
BSOAS 371974
“Durrani”, “Pathan”, “Shahsevan”, and “Nomads and nomadism”
Family of Man1975-6
London, Marshall Cavendish.
“Tribal society and its enemies: the latest round in the ‘Great Game’ of Asia”
RAIN 341979-October
“Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan”
SSRC Newsletter 421980-November
“Marriage preferences and ethnic relations among Durrani Pashtuns of Afghan Turkestan”
Folk 241982
with Nancy Tapper, pp. 157-177.
“Farmash-weaving among the Shahsevan”
In R. Pinner and W. B. Denny (eds) Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies I1985
with Nancy Tapper and Peter Andrews, London, OCTS / Halı, pp. 124-130.
“One hump or two? Hybrid camels and pastoral cultures”
Production Pastorale et Société 161985
“‘Eat this, it’ll do you a power of good’: food and commensality among Durrani Pashtuns”
American Ethnologist 131986
with Nancy Tapper, pp. 62-79. [Link]
“Raiding, reaction and rivalry: the Shahsevan in the Constitutional period”
BSOAS 491986
“Peasant’s pilgrimage: a religious ballad from Afghan Turkistan”
Asian Music 18 (1)1986
“The birth of the prophet: ritual and gender in Turkish Islam”
Man (NS) 221987
with Nancy Tapper,pp. 69-92. Turkish translation in Nancy Lindisfarne, Elhamdülillah Laikiz. Cinsiyet, Islam ve Türk Cumhuriyetçiliği, Istanbul, İetişim, 2001. [Link]
“Minorities and the problem of the state”
Third World Quarterly 10 (2)1988, April
“Azerbaijan: population, its occupations and culture”
Encyclopedia Iranica 31988
“History and identity among the Shahsevan”.
Iranian Studies 21 (3-4)1988
“A marriage with fieldwork”
Anthropological Couples1989
with Nancy Tapper, Ilva Ariëns and Ruud Strijp (eds), special issue of Focaal, Tijdschrift voor Antropologie (Nijmegen) 10, pp. 54-60.
“Resettlement: Rural-urban interaction and regional issues”, with discussion and response
International Seminar on Social and Cultural Prospects for Afghanistan, in Tribute to the Memory of Louis Dupree1990, December
WUFA (Writers Union of Free Afghanistan) Journal of Afghan Affairs (Peshawar, Pakistan) 5 (4), pp. 11-34.
“Marriage, honour and responsibility: Islamic and local models in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”
slamic Family Law: Ideals and Realities, special issue of Cambridge Anthropology I1992
with Nancy Tapper, Ziba Mir-Hosseini (ed), 16 (2), pp. 3-21. [Link]
“Understanding the Kurds”
Times Lit. Supp1992, 24 January
“A future for the nomads of Iran? report on a conference in Bakhtiari country, September 1992”
Middle East Events in London (SOAS CNMES)1992, November
“Confederations, tribal”
Encyclopedia Iranica 61993
“‘Islamic anthropology’ and the ‘anthropology of Islam’”
Anthropological Analysis and Islamic Texts1995
Daniel Martin Varisco (ed.), special issue of Anthropological Quarterly 68 (3), pp. 185-93.
“Shahsevan”
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume IX1995
Africa and the Middle East, New York, G.K.Hall, pp. 307-310.
“Shahsevan”
Encyclopedia of Islam (new edn) 91996
“Revisiting the Shahsavan”
HALI The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art 1041999, May-June
Summary by Jeff Spurr of lecture by me, pp. 49, 51, 53, 55.
“What is this thing called ‘Ethnography’?”
Review of entries on Ethnography and Tribes in Encylopedia Iranica1998 (1999)
Iranian Studies 31 (3-4), pp. 389-98. [Link]
“Screening Iran: the Cinema as National Forum”
Global Dialogue 3 (2-3)2001, spring-summer
“Anthropology and (the) crisis: Responding to crisis in Afghanistan”
Anthropology Today2001, December
“The New Iranian Cinema: New Cinema? New Iranians?”
ISIM Newsletter 102002
“Correspondence” on pastoralism and transhumance
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.)2005, December
“Who are the Kuchis? Nomad self-identities in Afghanistan”
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.).2008, March
“Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan: an update”
La tribu à l’heure de la globalization2009, July-Dec
Pierre Bonte et Yazid Ben Hounet (eds), special issue of Études rurales 184, pp. 33-46.
“Maryam’s story: an ethnographic memoir”
Afghanistan 3/12020
with Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper, pp. 27-47.