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For the horse breed from Turkmenistan, see Iomud.

Yomut

Yomut
A Yomud Turkmen in traditional attire, Cheleken Island, early 20th century.
Regions with significant populations
Turkmenistan and Iran, east coast of Caspian Sea
Languages
Turkmen (Yomut dialect), Persian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkmens, Iranian Turkmens

The Yomut are a Turkmen tribe who reside primarily in the borders of modern Turkmenistan.

Divisions

The Yomut are broken up into two primary geographical categories:

• Gurgan (also callled Gorgan): The Gurgan Yomut live in the Gorgan Plain of Iran and the southern bank of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan.

• Khiva: The Khiva Yomut live to the immediate west of the city of Khiva, across the border in Turkmenistan.

References

Bibliography

Journals

• Irons, William (1971). "Variation in Political Stratification among the Yomut Turkmen". Anthropological Quarterly. 44 (3): 143–156. doi:10.2307/3316935. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 3316935.

• Irons, William (1974). "Nomadism as a Political Adaptation: The Case of the Yomut Turkmen". American Ethnologist. 1 (4): 635–658. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 643373.

• Salzman, Philip Carl (1978). "Ideology and Change in Middle Eastern Tribal Societies". Man. 13 (4): 618–637. doi:10.2307/2801253. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2801253.

• Bradburd, Daniel (1989). "Producing Their Fates: Why Poor Basseri Settled but Poor Komachi and Yomut Did Not". American Ethnologist. 16 (3): 502–517. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 645271.

• Keller, Shoshana (2003). "The Central Asian Bureau, an essential tool in governing Soviet Turkestan". Central Asian Survey. 22 (2–3): 281–297. doi:10.1080/0263493032000157771. ISSN 0263-4937.

• Shioya, Akifumi (2014). "Povorot and the Khanate of Khiva: a new canal and the birth of ethnic conflict in the Khorazm oasis, 1870s–1890s". Central Asian Survey. 33 (2): 232–245. doi:10.1080/02634937.2014.916077. ISSN 0263-4937.

• Horák, Slavomír (2015-04-03). "The Battle of Gökdepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse". Central Asian Survey. 34 (2): 149–161. doi:10.1080/02634937.2014.964940. ISSN 0263-4937.

• Shablovskaia, Alisa (2021-08-08). "Treacherous friends or disenchanted masters? Russian diplomacy and Muhammad 'Ali (Shah) Qajar, 1911-1912". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 48 (4): 611–628. doi:10.1080/13530194.2019.1683717. ISSN 1353-0194.

• Thomas, Alun (2023). "Revisiting the 'Transcaspian Episode': British Intervention and Turkmen Statehood, 1918–1919". Europe-Asia Studies. 75 (1): 131–153. doi:10.1080/09668136.2021.1962250. ISSN 0966-8136.

• Rasekhi, Sare; Sharifian, Abolfazl; Shahraki, Mohammadreza; Silvano, Renato A. M. (2023). "Indigenous fishers' knowledge on fish behavior, fishing practices and climatic conditions in a conservation priority coastal ecosystem in the Caspian Sea". Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 33 (3): 629–648. doi:10.1007/s11160-022-09746-3. ISSN 0960-3166.

Books

• Irons, William (1975). The Yomut Turkmen: A Study of Social Organization among a Central Asian Turkic-Speaking Population. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. doi:10.3998/mpub.11394884. ISBN 978-1-951519-13-1.

• Irons, William (1994). "Why Are the Yomut Not More Stratified?". In Chang, Claudia (ed.). Pastoralists at the periphery: herders in a capitalist world. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1430-4.

• Olson, James Stuart; Pappas, Lee Brigance; Pappas, Nicholas Charles J., eds. (1994). An ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires. London: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27497-8.

• Edgar, Adrienne Lynn (2006). Tribal nation: the making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12799-6.

• Uyama, Tomohiko (2020). "Why in Central Asia, why in 1916? The revolt as an interface of the Russian colonial crisis and the World War". In Chokobaeva, Aminat; Drieu, Cloé; Morrison, Alexander (eds.). The Central Asian revolt of 1916: a collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-2942-0.

• Horák, Slavomír (2021). "Turkmenistan: Stability Through Regime Mobilisation". In Izquierdo, Ferran; Serra i Massansalvador, Francesc (eds.). Political regimes and neopatrimonialism in Central Asia: a sociology of power perspective. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-981-15-9093-1.

• Morrison, Alexander (2021). The Russian conquest of Central Asia: a study in imperial expansion, 1814-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03030-5.