Migration

Migration is the big part of the Bakhtiari culture because a percentage are still nomadic pastoralists, migrating between summer quarters and winter quarters. Nomads are communities of people who move from one place to another with all of their livestock and other goods they need. They usually leave due to weather conditions or due to food scarcity.   This means they have move up the mountains in the summer time to higher elevations and move back down the mountains during the winter time due to the harsh conditions. This requires a lot of moving things around, like living quarters, cattle, and farming. Imagine on moving ever year due the conditions people live in. The Bakhtiari tribe has a lot of moving to do each year with moving all of their belongings from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. If us Americans had to do that, people would not survive because we have never dealt with the hardships of moving like that. When it gets cold out people just put the heat on, when its hot out people put the AC on. People in the Bakhtiari tribe do not have the same luxuries we do so they have to adjust to the climates surrounding them and if they have to move  for a period of time due tot he weather they will. They do not have the same materials we do to build homes or the supplies like us too, so they do what they have to to survive. So for people migration is a big part of their lifestyle due where they live or what supplies they have to deal with. The Bakhtiari tribe deals with it like it is a job and they are costumed to it.