Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network: Video narratives of the life of the Lori (Lur) Bakhtiari tribal people and ethnic group
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of the content of video narratives on YouTube channels of the so-called Iranian nomads from the Lor Bakhtiari ethnic group. The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2024/0350-08612403143G.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of the content of video
narratives on YouTube channels of the so-called Iranian nomads from the Lor
Bakhtiari ethnic group. The main question underlying the research is what an
anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these
amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk
films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially
sedentarized, (semi)nomads in southwest Iran. This way of documenting the
daily practices of nomadic families and clans is primarily an alternative
way of making money on YouTube, but it is also an ethnocultural promotion of
the Lor Bakhtiari ethnic and tribal group and a tourist advertisement of
their homeland - mountain villages and seasonal camps in the Zagros region,
Lordegan district and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. Observing the
films of Iranian videographers who themselves belong to the culture of Lor
Bakhtiari was the reason for the anthropologist to start getting acquainted
with academic ethnology and anthropology in Iran, which belongs to those
national traditions of the discipline that are located on the periphery of
the world’s main, predominantly Western, centers of socio-cultural
anthropology. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |