Philip Carl Salzman

Philip Carl Salzman is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. Extensive ethnographic field research in Baluchistan (Iran), Gujarat and Rajasthan (India), and Sardinia (Italy) provided the foundation for such books as The Anthropology of Real Life: Events in Human Experience (1999), Black Tents of Baluchistan (2000), Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State (2004), and Classic Comparative Anthropology: Studies from the Tradition (2012).

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Anthropology Tribes and States [long_description] Being a tribe member means equality, autonomy, and democracy, but its structural premises are incompatible with modern constitutional democracy and rule-of-law. Philip Carl Salzman spent years in Baluchistan. He describes Baluchi lineage groups: closer kin unite to oppose more distant kin.

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