Migration

Bakhtiari Migration

In April 1966, Brooks accompanied the Bakhtiari on their yearly migration across the Bakhtiari mountains to the summer pastures. The interactive map below details the route and provides up to date photos from key points along the way. Below this are links to the photographs Brooks took of the journey’s four main stopping points.

▸Read Brooks’ Outline of Migration Route 1964

▸Read Brooks’ Outline of Migration Route 1966

• Read the detailed introduction to the materials about David Brooks’ Bakhtiari migration

The Migration Route

This link downloads a KMZ file. To open this file make sure you have Google Earth installed on your computer.

• View the migration map

Migration map

Map of Brooks’ Migration Route: Map data ©2015 Google

View the photo galleries and fieldwork diary extracts:

1. Munar
2. Shimbar
3. Crossing the Bazuft River
4. Camping after crossing the Bazuft River
5. Hezar Chameh

Resources

• David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1964 (Re-typed) (last modified: 28 July 2017)
• David Brooks’ Fieldwork diary, 1966 (Re-typed) (last modified: 28 July 2017)

Sounds of the Bazuft Crossing

David made some recordings of the sounds of the migration and of crossing the Bazuft river. These recordings can be found in the archive on Reel 06 and Reel 11 (both available in MP3 format).

• View the sound recording index.

Further information can be found in the Dancing the World archive. Click here for direct access to the files: Ecology and Migration.