All tents have a recognized head that deals with the formal officers of the tribe, villagers, and other strangers.

After the Land Reformations of Iran, they were settled in the cities and the villages of Fars province; but after some years, they again started decamping.

After the Islamic Revolution of Iran because of the problems of being nomad including inaccessibility to modern facilities (hospitals, schools, etc.

), successive droughts, destruction of the migration paths they again went to the cities and the villages of the province for living.

Previously, Basseries were Zoroastrians like the majority of Persians, before the arrival of Islam in the region.

The land runs from the Kūh-e Būl mountain to the hills west of the city of Lar.

Many Basseri were forced to settle down and cease their nomadic life in the 1930s by the policies of Reza Shah.

Most matters of law are governed by custom and compromise in the Basseri tribe and is regulated by diffuse sanctions.

Within the Darbar there is a personal valet, master of the stores, a groom for the chief's riding horse, a scribe, and a hunting/drinking companion.

Historically, the Basseri were part of the Khamseh tribal confederacy, but its importance both politically and socially has waned in modern times.