Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (528 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
First edition
Ausgabe:
Also published in print
ISBN:
0755600851
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075560086X
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9780755600892
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9780755600878
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9780755600854
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9780755600861
Inhalt:
"Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of the Middle East and Central Asia, Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper-Lindisfarne, this is a book of stories told by the Piruzai, a rural Afghan community of some 200 families who farmed in northern Afghanistan and in summer took their flocks to the central Hazŕajt́ mountains. The book comprises a collection of remarkable stories, folktales and conversations and provides unprecedented insight into the depth and colour of these people's lives. Recorded in the early 1970s, the stories range from memories of the Piruzai migration to the north a half century before, to the feuds, ethnic strife and the doings of powerful khans. There are also stories of falling in love, elopements, marriages, childbirth and the world of spirits. The book includes vignettes of the narrators, photographs, maps and a full glossary. It is a remarkable document of Afghanistan at peace, told by a people whose voices have rarely been heard."--
Inhalt:
Preface -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- List of illustrations -- Chapter 1 - Prologue: Introducing the Piruzai -- Chapter 2 - The Es'haqzai Come North -- Chapter 3 - Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-Pol -- Chapter 4 - Tribal Politics -- Chapter 5 - A Shepherd's Life -- Chapter 6 - For the Animals -- Chapter 7 - PEG Land: A Golden Tent-Peg -- Chapter 8 - On the Farm -- Chapter 9 - Other Business -- Chapter 10 - The Marriage Market -- Chapter 11 - Family Matters -- Chapter 12 - Religion, Life, Death, Disease -- Chapter 13 - The World of Jinns -- Chapter 14 - Shrines, Sufis, Exorcism -- Chapter 15 - Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972 -- Appendices - 1 - Ancestors -- 2 - Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-2016 -- 3 - Recording and Editing the Stories -- Glossary Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755600892
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