ABSTRACT
Reprinted from the Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 44, 1971, 109–31). Daniel G. Bates is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. His major research interests are in ecology and intergroup exchange, economic organization, family structure and population in the Middle East. His principal research was conducted in Turkey and the Middle East between 1968 and 1971. He is the author of The Yoruk of Southeastern Turkey: A Study of Land Use and Social Organization.
