{"id":1312,"date":"2009-10-06T23:46:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2018-08-08T02:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:39:03","slug":"18109-philip-carl-salzman-black-tents-of-baluchistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"18109. (Philip Carl Salzman) Black tents of Baluchistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is an unusu\u00adal\u00adly clear-head\u00aded work of ethnog\u00adra\u00adphy, describ\u00ading the Sarha\u00addi Baluch, a peo\u00adple of south\u00adeast\u00adern Iran.&nbsp;Salz\u00adman is splen\u00addid\u00adly immune to the the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal fads that have suc\u00adceed\u00aded each oth\u00ader like Third Cen\u00adtu\u00adry Roman Emper\u00adors.&nbsp;He looks at the Sarha\u00addi, describes what he sees in plain lan\u00adguage, inter\u00adprets it with the min\u00adi\u00admum of abstrac\u00adtions and jar\u00adgon.&nbsp;He has a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly sharp instinct for describ\u00ading polit\u00adi\u00adcal life.&nbsp;Focus\u00ading on who makes deci\u00adsions, how they are imple\u00adment\u00aded and enforced, and what exter\u00adnal and inter\u00adnal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances trig\u00adger, lim\u00adit, or mod\u00adi\u00adfy them, he avoids most of the essen\u00adtial\u00adist, pseu\u00addo-evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary and a pri\u00adori quag\u00admires.&nbsp;There\u2019s no \u201cpost-mod\u00adern\u201d gib\u00adber\u00adish.&nbsp;There is no roman\u00adti\u00adciz\u00ading, no pom\u00adpos\u00adi\u00adty in his obser\u00adva\u00adtions.&nbsp;I strong\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend this to any\u00adone who is inter\u00adest\u00aded in the nature of deci\u00adsion-mak\u00ading in nomadic seg\u00admen\u00adtary societies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unusu\u00adal\u00adly clear-head\u00ad\u00aded work of ethnog\u00adra\u00adphy, describ\u00ading the Sarha\u00addi Baluch, a peo\u00adple of south\u00adeast\u00adern Iran.&nbsp;Salz\u00adman is splen\u00addid\u00adly immune to the the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal fads that have suc\u00adceed\u00aded each oth\u00ader like Third Cen\u00adtu\u00adry Roman Emper\u00adors.&nbsp;He looks at the Sarha\u00addi, describes what&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1312\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-br-reading-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}