Baluch Rugs and Ethnography

Appadurai, Arjun ed.
1986 The Social Life of Things : Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Azadi, S.
1986 Carpets in the Baluch Tradition, Munich: Klinkhardt and Biermann.

1989 Baluch Rugs, Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3, pp. 632ff.

Balland, Daniel and Augustin de Benoist
1982 Nomades et semi-nomades Baluc d'Afghanistan, Revue Géographie de l'Est, vol. 22, pp. 117-144.

Bausback, Franz
1980 Alte Knüpfarbeiten der Belutschen. Mannheim.

Bernardout, Raymond
1974 Catalogue of Turkoman Weaving including Beluch. London.

1983 Antique Rugs. London.

Bennett, Ian
Three Baluch Rugs, Hali, I/1, pp. 399-400

1981 The Baluch Boom, Oriental Rug Auction Review, vol. 1, no. 3, May, pp. 1-3.

1983 On Collecting Baluch Rugs, Hali, vol. 3, no. 1

Bier, Carol, Mary Martin, and John Wertime
1987 Baluch, in Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th-19th Centuries), ed. Carol Bier. The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. Pp. 291 -299.

Black, David and Clive Loveless
1976 Rugs of the Wandering Baluchi, London: David Black Oriental Carpets.

Boucher, Jeff W.
1989 Baluch Woven Treasures. Alexandria, Va.

1978 Baluch Weavings of the 19th Century, Hali, I/3, pp. 284-287.

Cole, Tom (interviewer)
1994 From the Horse's Mouth, Talking Baluch with Jerry Anderson, Hali, Issue 76, August/September, pp. 79-89.

Craycraft, Michael
1991 Baluch Perspectives, Hali, issue 59, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 112-117.

1989 The Qarai Rugs of Turbat-i-Haidari, Oriental Rug Review, vol. 9, no. 2, December/January, pp. 50-56.

1982 Belouch Prayer Rugs. Point Reyes Station, CA: Adraskand Gallery.

Dhall, D.P. and T.Z. Dahl
1983 Rugs of the Afghanistan Belouchi, Hali, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 481-487.

Edwards, A.C.
1975 The Persian Carpet, London: Duckworth.

Ferdinand, K.
1959 The Baluchistan Barrel-vaulted Tent and its Affinities, Folk, vol 1.

1969 The Baluchistan Barrel-vaulted Tent. Additional Material from Iranian Baluchistan and Sistan, Folk, vol. 2.

1964 Ethnographic Notes on Chahar Aimaq, Hazara, and Moghol, Acta Orientalia, vol. XXVIII/1-2.

Hale, Andy
1994 The Story is Free, Hali, issue 76, August/September.

Janata, Alfred
1978 Aimaq, in Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, ed. Richard V. Weekes, Greenwood Press, Westport, pp. 8-12.

1984 Flatweaves of West Afghanistan, Oriental Rug Review, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 2-6.

1985 The So-Called Herat Baluch Rugs and their Weavers, Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies I, London, pp. 165-171.

Jones, H. McCoy, and Jeff Boucher
1974 Baluchi Rugs; An Exhibition Featuring Rugs of the Baluchi Tribes of Iran and Afghanistan, International Hajji Baba Society, Washington.

1972 An Exhibition of the Weavings of the Tribes in Afghanistan, International Hajji Baba Society, Washington.

Konieczny, M.G.
1979 Textiles of Baluchistan, London: British Museum.

Lichtenberg, Marc
1983 A Differentiation of 'Baluch' Textiles, Oriental Rug Review, vol. 3, no. 5, August, p. 8.

O'Bannon, George
1982a Baluch Rugs from Afghanistan, I. Taimani Rugs, Hali,vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 352-356.

1982b Baluch Rugs from Afghanistan, 2. Aksi Rugs, Hali, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 127-130.

1983 The Nomenclature of Baluch Rugs, Oriental Rug Review, vol. 3, no. 5, August, pp. 6-7.

1985 Mushwani Baluch, Hali, vol 7, ni. 1, issue no. 25, January.

1989 Yacub Khani and Dokhtar-i-Gahzi Baluch Rugs, Oriental Rug Review, vo. 9, no. 2, December/January, pp. 16-20.

Parsons, R.D.
1983 The Carpets of Afghanistan, Oriental Rugs, volume 3. Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Pittenger, Robert
1994 Mind the Gap, Baluch Rugs in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Hali, issue 73, February/March.

Salzman, Philip C.
1972 Multi-Resource Nomadism in Iranian Baluchistan, in Perspectives on Nomadism, ed. W.G. Irons and N. Dyson-Hudson. Leiden, pp. 60-68.

Shaffer, Daniel
1990 The Caravanserai of Life, Hali, vol 12, no. 2, issue 50, pp. 110-115.

Singer, André F.V.
1976 A Study of the Impact of Social and Cultural Change upon Ethnic Identity in Eastern Iran. Ph.D. thesis, Oxford Univeristy.

Spooner, Brian
1983 Who are the Baluch? A Preliminary Investigation into the Dynamics of an Ethnic Identity from Qajar Iran, in Qajar Iran: Political, Social, and Cultural Change 1800-1925, ed. E. Bosworth and C. Hillenbrand. Edinburgh, pp. 93-110.
Tapper, Richard
1979 Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict and Ritual Among Shasevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran, Academic Press, London.

1984 Nomads in a Wider Society, Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 8, pp. 23-25.

1989 Baluchistan, Encyclopedia Iranica, vol. 3, pp. 598-632.

Tzareva, Elena
1984 Rugs and Carpets from Central Asia: The Turkomans, the Uzbeks, the Karakalpaks, the Kirghiz, the Kazakhs, the Baluch. Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad.

Wegner, Dietrich H.
1978 Some Notes on the Rugs of the Baluchi Nomads and Related Weavers, Hali, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 287-293.

1985 Pile Rugs of the Baluch and their Neighbors-Part I, tr. Lola Froenlich, Oriental Rug Review, vol.5, no.4,July, pp.2-4.

1985 Pile Rugs of the Baluch and their Neighbors-Part II, tr. Lola Froenlich, Oriental Rug Review, vol.5, no.5, August, pp.6-8.

1985 Pile Rugs of the Baluch and their Neighbors-Part III, tr. Lola Froenlich, Oriental Rug Review, vol.5, no.6, September, pp.2-5.

1985 Pile Rugs of the Baluch and their Neighbors-Part IV, tr. Lola Froenlich, Oriental Rug Review, vol.5, no.7, October, pp.8-9.

1985 Pile Rugs of the Baluch and their Neighbors-Part V, tr. Lola Froenlich, Oriental Rug Review, vol.5, no.8, November, pp.8-9.

Compiled 2/92 by Carol Bier
Revised for the preparation to the exhibition Baluch Rugs from The Boucher Collection, 8/95 by Sumru Belger Krody


see Baluch exh. planning folder; recent research by J. LaRiche? field research by Dr. Shirley Jarmon in London; incl.:
Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran; Adraskand volume; ORR articles by Tatiana Divens and Joyce Ware; other?