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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11918770.
- catalog coverage "Sarhad Plateau (Iran) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-383) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 390 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Black tents of Baluchistan.".
- catalog identifier "156098810X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Black tents of Baluchistan.".
- catalog isPartOf "Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Black tents of Baluchistan.".
- catalog spatial "Iran Sarhad Plateau.".
- catalog spatial "Sarhad Plateau (Iran) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "305.891598 21".
- catalog subject "Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) Domestic animals.".
- catalog subject "Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Baluchi (Southwest Asian people) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "DS269.B33 S37 2000".
- catalog subject "Herders Iran Sarhad Plateau.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Black tents of Baluchistan / Philip Carl Salzman.".
- catalog type "text".