Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State

by Philip Carl Salzman

Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081333814X
• ISBN13: 9780813338149
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"