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ON SOCIO‐ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF IRANIAN VILLAGES — With Special Reference to Deh —
Author(s) -
ŌNO MORIO
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.1967.tb00508.x
Subject(s) - landlord , peasant , socioeconomic status , perspective (graphical) , control (management) , geography , sociology , socioeconomics , economics , political science , demography , mathematics , law , population , geometry , archaeology , management
In Iran the peasant ( ra'yat ) lives and works in a small village called a deh. His production and living in this village are under the rigid control of the landlord ( mālik ). From the point of view of the landlord, the deh is primarily a peasant community‐control mechanism; in fact, it is the base of the mālik‐ra'yat land system. This study attempts to place the socioeconomic structure of the deh in theoretical perspective by analysing how the mālik manages to control his land as well as the patterns of social relationship which exist among the peasants.