Richard Tapper

For the New Zealand Olympic swimmer, see Richard Findlay Tapper.

Richard Lionel Tapper is a professor emeritus of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is an anthropologist specializing in the nomadic peoples of Iran.

Tapper received his master's degree from Cambridge and his doctorate from London (1972).

He was a founding member of the Afghan Refugee Information Network. (Tapper, 2008)

Bibliography

• 1972, The Shahsavan of Azarbaijan: a study of political and economic change in a Middle Eastern tribal society Ph.D. thesis.
• 1979, Pasture and politics : economics, conflict, and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran ISBN 0-12-683660-4
• 1983, The Conflict of tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan ISBN 0-312-16232-4
• 1989, "Felt huts, haired tents, scene changes and thought structures: reflections nomads and their dwellings in the Middle East", presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 15–18
• 1990, "Anthropologists, historians, and tribespeople on tribe and state formation in the Middle East" in Tribes and state formation in the Middle East ISBN 0-520-07079-8
• 1991, editor, Islam in modern Turkey : religion, politics, and literature in a secular state ISBN 1-85043-321-6
• 1992, editor, Some minorities in the Middle East
• 1994, editor, with Sami Zubaida, Culinary cultures of the Middle East = A taste of thyme: culinary cultures of the Middle East ISBN 1-86064-603-4, ISBN 1-85043-742-4
• 1997, Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan ISBN 0-521-58336-5
• 2000, editor, Ayatollah Khomeini and the modernization of Islamic thought
• 2002, editor, The new Iranian cinema: politics, representation and identity ISBN 1-86064-803-7
• 2002, editor, with Jon Thompson, The nomadic peoples of Iran ISBN 1-898592-24-1
• 2003, editor, with Keith McLachlan, Technology, tradition and survival: aspects of material culture in the Middle East and central Asia ISBN 0-7146-4927-9
• 2006, editor, with Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the quest for reform ISBN 1-84511-133-8
• 2008, "What is 'Afghan culture'?: An anthropologist reflects", Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture. [1]