Pastoralists

Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, the concise volume provides detailed analyses of divergent types of pastoral societies, including segmentary tribes, tribal chiefdoms, and peasant pastoralists.

Informationen zum Autor
Philip Carl Salzman is professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He has carried out ethnographic research among nomadic and pastoral peoples in Baluchistan, Rajastan, and Sardinia. He is founder and past editor of the journal Nomadic Peoples and was awarded the 2001 Primio Pitrè-Salomone Marino from the International centre of Ethnohistory of Palermo for his book Black Tents of Baluchistan.

Zusammenfassung
Focusing on the interplay between ecology and politics, Pastoralists explores equality and hierarchy among pastoral peoples as well as the linkages between pastoralists and states.

Autorentext

Salzman, Philip Carl

Zusammenfassung
Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, the concise volume provides detailed analyses of divergent types of pastoral societies, including segmentary tribes, tribal chiefdoms, and peasant pastoralists.

Inhalt

Preface -- Introduction -- Agency and Adaptation -- Equality and Anarchy -- Hierarchical Image and Reality -- Accommodation and Resistance to the State -- What can we Learn from Pastoral Peoples about Equality, Freedom, and Democracy? -- The Dynamics of Pastoral Worlds -- Appendix