General Economics. Miscellaneous
Visit to Kepez. Village built up side of escarpment, with 'balar' {vineyards} on either side - excellent position for vineyards, with its terraced slopes.
Several 'balar' obviously go up to 15 yrs.' growth & are bearing fruit well. Considerably more than one at present at Sakaltutan. Stone houses, but economic
standard of village seems roughly on a level with Sakaltutan - i.e. a poorer village than Kanber or Glveren, though there are one or two quite prosperous
households. Village has a "salk evi" - a good little building, with red-tiled, gabled roof. "Shhat memuru" - but he only visits the village occasionally,
staying mainly in his own village of Efkeri.{gl: Health Officers were a new scheme; trained village boys} Women I talked to apparently thought pretty poorly of
him and had no confidence in his ability to help them or children. Possibility of this "salik evi" seems to have been lost - building closed when we were in
village, all rooms save one in which memr sleeps quite empty, & memr not there. Small
Houses at the top end of the village, higher up the slope, are built in cave fashion into the side of the hill, fashioned out of the soft rock. Dumps for dung,
straw, etc. adjoin these houses, - dug out of the rock. Large pond for camuz (buffalo} adjoining the harman at the foot of the village.
k<Kepez, houses, caves, school, attendance, health officer>
{c: all the health officers we came across in 1949-52 seemed almost useless, and ignored by villagers. An example of the enromous difficulty of making such
schemes effective; and of the illusiuon necessarily insisted upon by authorities}
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