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Black tents of Baluchistan / Philip Carl Salzman.

Title
Black tents of Baluchistan / Philip Carl Salzman.
Author
Salzman, Philip Carl.
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000.

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ix, 390 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"Drawing upon twenty-seven months spent among the men, women, and children of the Yarahmadzai tribe of Iranian Baluchistan, Philip Carl Salzman shows that such labels as "pastoral," "nomad," "chiefdom," "Muslim," and "subsistence" are misleading, because they reduce a complex and mutating multiplicity to an imagined essence. Relating the details of the group's life - from tent living and the division of daily labor to kinship ties, lineage organization, and religion - Salzman discusses how Baluch shift between decentralized, egalitarian, segmentary lineage politics and centralized, hierarchical, chief-based politics. He also compares and contrasts the people of the Sarhad with other livestock-rearing, mobile peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Maintaining that scholarly conceptions of society have too often overemphasized unitary structural integration, Salzman argues that alternative stances or tendencies can remain embedded in a culture's repertoire, ready to be called forth in response to changing conditions."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Uniform Title
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Subject
  • Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) > Domestic animals
  • Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) > Economic conditions
  • Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) > Social conditions
  • Herders > Sarhad Plateau
  • Sarhad Plateau (Iran) > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-383) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tent Living -- Black Tents of Pushti Kamal -- The Camping Group -- Eating and Drinking -- Making a Living -- Herding and Husbanding -- Cultivating -- Raiding and Trading -- Migrating -- Working and Laboring -- Living in Order and Conflict -- Ties that Bind -- Lineages and Leaders in Action -- The Tribe and the Chief -- Praying and Pronouncing -- Conclusion: Reflecting on the Sarhadi Baluch.
ISBN
156098810X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99088316^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library