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The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan : adaptation to closed frontiers and war /
"An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Publications on ethnicity and nationality of the School of International Studies, University of Washington.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the 2002 Edition: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Global Terror, Inc
- pt. I. Space, Time, and Human Communities
- 1. The Ecological Setting
- 2. History and Demographic Process
- pt. II. Strategies of Adaptation
- 3. The Wakhi High-Altitude Agropastoral Adaptation
- 4. The Kirghiz Pastoral Subsistence System
- 5. The Kirghiz People, the Oey, and the Qorow
- 6. The Kirghiz Sociocultural System
- pt. III. Closed Frontiers
- 7. Territorial Loss: An Intracultural Adaption
- 8. Adaptation to Socioeconomic and Cultural Restrictions
- 9. Conclusion
- Epilogue: Coping with a Communist "Revolution," State Failure, and War.