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

Shahrani, M. Nazif

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ISBN 10: 0295982624 ISBN 13: 9780295982625

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2002

Riassunto

An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, placeThe 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 offers valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

M. Nazif Shahrani , an Afghan anthropologist, is chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.

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Book by Shahrani M Nazif

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0295982624
• ISBN 13: 9780295982625
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 304