David Brooks Archive Documents

David Brooks (27^th June 1940 - 29^th April 1994)

David Brooks’ academic career at Durham University spanned over two decades. He was the Anthropology Department Liaison with the Oriental Studies Department and a Member of the Committee for Middle East and Islamic Studies. His major academic interests included:

• Middle East, particularly Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco nomadic and tribal populations; tribe-state relations; Sufism; Shi’a Islam;
• Tribal organisation in Iran with special reference to history of tribe-state relationships and problems of settlement.
• Religious and cultural symbolism; ritual and performing arts- music, dance, poetry- with research on these themes in Iran.
• North-East England.
• Cognitive and cultural anthropology; structuralism; semiology; hermeneutics.

You can read more about David Brooks on The David Brooks Archive website.

 

Brooks and the Bakhtiari

Brooks, D.H.M, Bakhtiari overview lecture handout [pdf]

Brooks, D.H.M. (1973) ‘The Bakhtiari’, Peoples of the Earth, Tom Stacey Ltd, London [pdf]

D.H.M. (1970) ‘Ascent of Man’, Durham University [pdf]

 

Dance

Brooks, D.H.M (1977) ‘Dance and the expression of Bakhtiari Identity’, presented at The Festival of Popular Traditions, Isfahan, Iran (12-18th October 1977) [pdf]

Chub bazi pdf

Chupi pdf

 

Gender

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) ‘Virgins, Viragos and Lion Women among the Bakhtiari of S.W. Iran’ [pdf]

Text 17-HusainQuliandhisBrothers.pdf

Text 18-Shirzan.pdf

 

Politics

Brooks, D.H.M, (1967),’The Political Leadership of the Bakhtiari, a migratory tribe in S.W Iran’, BIPS AGM, London [pdf]

OutlinefortextforTheKalantar

Textno1SeifullahKhan

Textno12Kalantars

 

Fieldwork Diaries

David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1964 (Re-typed)

David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1966

Brooks, D.H.M, (1971) Fieldwork lecture, Durham

Brooks, D.H.M, ‘The Bakhtiari A Nomadic Tribe in South-West Persia’, Fieldwork Report, Oxford, May 1965

 

Migration

Brooks’ Outline of Migration Route 1964

Brooks’ Outline of Migration Route 1966

David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1964 (Re-typed)

David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1966

detailed introduction to the materials

Recordingsindex

 

Pilgrimage and Religion

Brooks, D.H.M (1981) ‘Sacred Space and Sacred Place pilgrimage in the Bakhtiari of Iran’, ‘Pilgrimage The Human Quest’ conference, Pittsburgh, 14-17th May 1981

Brooks, D.H.M (1991) ‘Sacred Spaces and Potent Places in the Bakhtiari Mountains’

Religion

 

Brooks and Film – ‘People of the Wind‘

Brooks, D.H.M (1981) ‘Peoples of the Wind Bakhtiari Nomads of S.W. Iran’

Brooks, D.H.M (1981) ‘Peoples of the Wind Bakhtiari Nomads of S.W. Iran’

Anthony Howarth’s recollections of ‘People of the Wind’, January 2016

Wright, S (2003) Introduction to ‘People of the Wind’, Durham Film Festival, July 2003

 

Brooks and Film – ‘Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life’

Brooks, D.H.M (1974) ‘Grass’ notes

Brooks, D.H.M, ‘Grass’ review

 

Legacy and Tributes

Selected former students of David Brooks

Original paper detailing Brooks’ students and conferences

‘The Last Lions of Bakhtiyari‘

Gendered Lessons in Ivory Towers

 

Unpublished Texts

KhanisX

Textno1SeifullahKhan

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Babadi Bab’

Brooks, D. H.M ‘Dancing the World, An Interpretation of Dance as a Metaphor for Experience

Dance1-DANCINGTHEWORLD_corrected20July2017

Brooks, D.H.M ‘History’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘History from point of view of Local Bakhtiari Khan

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Bakhtiarwand II of the Bakhtiari

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Bakhtiarwand’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Bakhtiarwand (continued)’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Husain Quli and his Brothers’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Kalantars’

Textno12Kalantars

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Field Notes, Material Gathered from Informant, Seifullah Ilbegpur’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Outline for text for The Kalantar’

Textno14OutlineforthetextfortheKALANTAR

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Ecology’

Textno15Ecology

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Dance’

Dance2_corrected20July2017

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Chupi’

Dance3-Chupi_corrected20July2017

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Shirzan’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Such as male-female, culture-nature’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Costume’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Religion’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘The Migration’

Textno22Migration

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Bakhtiari Territory’

Brooks, D.H.M Bakhtiari Territorial and Political Divisions

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Ja’far Qoli Rus tami, Kalantar of the Babadi’

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) ‘(Bakhtiari notes) from Geertz’

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) ‘Further problems in producing viable model of analysis’

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) unedited draft ‘Virgins, viragos and Lion women among the Bakhtiari of S.W. Iran, Ambivalent images of the female’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Notes from Yapp’s presentation’

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) ‘Need to think about processes’

Brooks, D.H.M (1978) ‘Systems of oppression’

Brooks, D.H.M (1979) ‘Notes occasioned by Mxxx’

Brooks, D.H.M (1979) ‘Notes and thoughts on Mxxx’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Standard set of cultural assumptions’

Brooks, D.H.M (1979) ‘What xxx refer to Bakhtiari, They call themselves Lur’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘There is no divinity outside the only divinity’

Brooks, D.H.M '24-28' Oct.

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Photostat of Bakhtiari genealogy’

Brooks, D.H.M ‘Dancing the World. Typed’

Brooks, D.H.M ’14th Nov. on Bakhtiari’

 

You can read more about David Brooks on The David Brooks Archive website.