Philip Carl Salzman

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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 Center of Ethnohistory of Palermo for his book Black Tents of Baluchistan.

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