The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan : Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shahrani, M. Nazif Mohib, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wakhi.
Kirgiezen.
Nomaden.
Grenzen.
Adaptatie (fysiologie, biologie)
Geschichte
Wakhi (Asian people)
Manners and customs.
Kyrgyz.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Kirghiz > Afghānistān.
Wakhi (Asian people) > Afghanistan.
Kyrgyz > Afghanistan.
Kirgisen.
Wachī
Afghanistan
Afghanistan > Vākhān (Region)
Afghanistan.
Vākhān (Afghanistan : Region) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China." "The new Preface challenges the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is religious. Shahrani asserts that the problem of terrorism is fundamentally political and is historically linked to the inappropriate model of the centralized nation-state introduced to Afghanistan by colonial regimes." "The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue. Shahrani has closely followed the flight of the Kirghiz to Pakistan in 1978 and their eventual resettlement among resentful Kurdish villagers in eastern Turkey in 1982. The ethnographic documentation and analysis of the transformation of Kirghiz society, politics, economics, and demography since their exodus from the Pamirs offer valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780295803784

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