ETHNOGRAPHY (Bibliography) For cited works not given in detail, see “Short References”; see also the bibliography in ANTHROPOLOGY, where a…

BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History, and Ethnography This article is divided into the following sections: 1. introductory review of problems in…

ETHNOGRAPHY, the basic field research method in anthropology. This article, which treats the corpus of ethnographic data, complements the article…

DESERT (Pers. bīābān; kavīr; lūt; see below), area of low precipitation that supports little vegetation and lacks surface water. Secondary…

BĪĀBĀN, name of the coastal plain that extends south from the mouth of the Mīnāb river for 88 miles to…

8. The British period, 1839-1947. The next hundred years saw an explosion of publications on the Baluch and Baluchistan. The…