The Yomut Turkmen: A Study of Social Organization among a Central Asian Turkic-Speaking Population

Contents
Preface
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Plates
I. Introduction
	The kinship system and its environment
	The ethnographic setting
	The recent history of the Turkmen
	Data and research methods
II. Ecology
	Traditional ecology and economy
	Recent changes
	The current ecology of Aji Qui
III. Political Structure
	Descent groups
	Residence groups
	The relationship between descent groups and residence groups
	Peace, war and feud
	Sacred lineages
	Relations with the Kajar government
		The office of thaqlau
		Nomadism and politics
	Nomadism and feud
	Nomadism and relations with the state
	The recent political history of Aji Qui
IV. Domestic Groups
	The normal developmental cycle
	Exceptional patterns of household development
	Household types in a particular oba
	Inheritance
V. Kinship Norms and Categories
	Parent-child
	Grandparent-grandchild
	Siblings
	Husband-wife
	Affines
	Uterine relatives
	The contrast between agnatic and non-agnatic kinship
	The extension of kinship
	The place of deceased ancestors in the kinship system
	Slavery and kinship
	The prominence of the father-son relationship
	Kinship norms and domestic groups
VI. Marriage
	Choice of marriage partner
	Endogamy and agnation
	Marriage negotiations
	The development of a marriage
	Widows, widowers, remarriage and polygyny
	Divorce
	The demographic context
	Population regulation through social conventions: an hypothesis
VII. Domestic Organization and Economics
	Differential productivity and the distribution of wealth
		Livestock as a form of capital
		Shepherding contracts
		Agriculture
		Carpet weaving
		Other secondary sources of income
		Wealth profile in a particular community
		The relationship between family size and wealth
	Leveling institutions
		Bridewealth
		Other leveling institutions
		The overall effect of economic leveling institutions
		Household size and economic viability
VIII. Overview
Appendices
	I. The Wealth Profile of Aji Qui
	II. Income of a Pastoral Family of Median Wealth
	III. Notes on the Transliteration of Turkmen Words
Bibliography