Philip Carl Salzman

Biographic Data

ID3585928
NAMEPhilip Carl Salzman
GIVEN NAMESPhilip Carl
FAMILY NAMESalzman
SIGNATURESALZMAN P C
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS291
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX9

  • Tribes

    Philip Carl SalzmanCHAPTER2020

    A tribe is a regional security organization. It ties together a number of local primary face-to-face groups. It is charged with control of territory, defense against outside intruders, and protection of humans, livestock, and productive resources, such as wells and cultivation. Whatever productive activity tribesmen are primarily engaged in, such as pastoralism or cultivation, each male, with the exception of holy men, serves also as a warrior. T…

  • Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict

    Philip Carl Salzman, Donna Robinson DivineBOOKPostcolonial Theory and the…2020

  • Pastoralists

    Philip Carl SalzmanCHAPTER2018

    Pastoralists depend for their livelihood on raising livestock on natural pasture. Livestock may be selected for meat, milk, wool, traction, carriage, or riding, or a combination. Pastoralists rarely rely solely on their livestock; they may also engage in hunting, fishing, cultivation, commerce, predatory raiding, and extortion. Some pastoral peoples are nomadic and others are sedentary, while yet others are partially mobile. Economically, some pa…

  • Robert S.G. Fletcher, British Imperialism and the Tribal Question: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936

    Open AccessPhilip Salzman, Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLENomadic Peoples2016

  • Tribes Today: In Anthropology and in the World

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEThe Journal of the Middle East…2015Cited by: 3

    At a fall 2012 conference on the culture of Baluchistan, a Nigerian academic remarked on the offensiveness of the term “tribe,” so considered because of the demeaning way it was used by the British

  • Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini by Rasmus Christian Elling

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEThe Journal of the Middle East…2015

    The Iranians I know best are the Baluch. During the years 1968–1976 I lived among Baluch for some twenty-seven months. More specifically, I lived primarily among the Dadolzai brasrend, or Dadolzai

  • When They Proclaim “Islam is the Answer,” What is the Question: The Return to Political Islam

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEThe Journal of the Middle East…2011

    The Arab sense of self is influenced by the belief that Arabic is the language of God, and that God chose the Arabs to convey to all of humanity the true religion of Islam. The Arab sense of self is also influenced by the historical facts that the ancestors of today's Arabs conquered much of the known world and dominated it for the better part of a thousand years. However, the last centuries have seen serious setbacks to the Arabs, who have answe…

  • Camps of the Tundra: Politics through Reindeer among Saami Pastoralists. Robert Paine

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2010

  • Arab Culture and Postcolonial Theory

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEIsrael Affairs2007Cited by: 1

  • The Iron Law of Politics

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences2004Cited by: 1References: 16

    Political philosophers have doubted the compatibility of various major values, such as equality and freedom. Ethnographic and historical evidence has indicated the presence of (1) economic equality and individual freedom in the absence of civil peace in segmentary societies based on self-help; (2) economic equality and civil peace in the absence of individual freedom in corporate societies; and (3) individual freedom and civil peace in the absenc…

  • I.M. Lewis, Master Ethnographer of the Somali, Recipient of the I.U.A.E.S. Commission on Nomadic Peoples Lifetime Achievement Award

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLENomadic Peoples2003

  • Walter Goldschmidt, Exemplary Anthropologist of East African Pastoralists, Recipient of the I.U.A.E.S. Commission on Nomadic Peoples Lifetime Achievement Award

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLENomadic Peoples2003

  • Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Fact and Value in Islamic Banking and Anthropology

    Open AccessB Maurer, Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAnthropology News2003

  • Pastoral Nomads: Some General Observations Based on Research in Iran

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2002Cited by: 10

    A review of research on pastoral nomads in Iran leads to a number of general observations about pastoral nomadism. Nomadic movement is highly purposeful and is oriented toward achieving specific production or other goals. Commonly nomadic mobility is used to advance production goals in a number of diverse sectors. However, nomadism is not tied to one type of economic system; some nomads have generalized, consumption-oriented production, while oth…

  • On Reflexivity

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2002Cited by: 62References: 19

    The value of reflexivity has been widely accepted in anthropology during the past two decades. The concept of ref lexivity can be seen developing in the work of theorists and ethnographers of the 1960s and 1970s and was brought to flower among theorists and ethnographers of the 1980s and 1990s. But little critical analytic attention has been directed toward its claims to generate new understandings and inform about their positional foundations. H…

  • Toward a Balanced Approach to the Study of Equality

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLECurrent Anthropology2001

  • Hierarchical Image and Reality: The Construction of a Tribal Chiefship

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…2000Cited by: 2

    Image and reality interplay in the chiefship of the Basseri tribe of southern Iran. We know the Basseri through the influential and rightly esteemed ethnography, Nomads of South Persia, by Fredrik Barth. Barth's account of the Basseri chief is vivid and striking, and, in placing the chiefship within the complex society of Iran, was an original contribution to the ethnographic literature. And yet there appear to be certain subtleties of the Basser…

  • Mobilita e nomadismo

    Philip Carl Salzman, Maria AriotiARTICLELa Ricerca Folklorica1999Cited by: 1

  • Tempus de Baristas

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1999Cited by: 2

    Tempus de Baristas. 1992 (released in 1993). 141 minutes, color. video directed by David MacDougall. Produced by the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico di Sardegna (Italy). For more information contact the Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California Extension, Berkeley, CA 94704, or the Royal Anthropological Institute Video Sales, London, UK

  • Is Inequality Universal

    Philip Carl SalzmanARTICLECurrent Anthropology1999Cited by: 43References: 25

    Ethnographic characterizations of pastoralists as egalitarian have recently been contested on the grounds that new studies have demonstrated a widespread inequality in livestock ownership, thus proving that the notion of pastoral egalitarianism is a myth. This revisionist rejection of the egalitarianism of pastoralists appears difficult to sustain after examination of the literature. Ethnographic accounts show a wide range of pastoral societies, …

  • The Anthropology of Tribal and Peasant Pastoral Societies

    Johan Helland, Ugo Fabietti et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997

  • African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1997Cited by: 1

    African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach. Elliot Fratkin, A. Galvin, and Eric Albella Roth, eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1994.viii+245 pp., Figures, maps, plates, tables, notes, references, contributors, index

  • Ethnography of Science

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAnthropology News1996

  • To the Editor

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAnthropology News1989

  • The Failure of Solitary Fieldwork

    Open AccessPhilip Carl SalzmanARTICLEAnthropology News1989