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The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue.

University of Washington Press, 20 Eyl 2012 - 304 sayfa. The new Preface challenges the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is religious. The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue.

Nazif Shahrani Shahrani has closely followed the flight of the Kirghiz to Pakistan in 1978. 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.

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Frontiers by M. Nazif Mohib Shahrani. affected the structure of Kirghiz and Wakhi society. Turning early publication into book examining the nature of primary and secondary empire formation and how they operate.

International Journal of Middle East Studies. Pp. xxiii + 264. Audrey C. Shalinsky (a1). University of Wyoming, Laramie. Volume 13 Issue 1. M. Nazif Mohib Shahrani, English Français. International Journal of Middle East Studies. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2009.

Strategies of Adaptation - 3. The Wakhi High-Altitude Agropastoral Adaptation - 4. The Kirghiz Pastoral . The Kirghiz Pastoral Subsistence System - 5. The Kirghiz People, the 'Oey', and the 'Qorow' - 6. The Kirghiz Sociocultural System - Part 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 - Glossary - Bibliography - Index. 588. a Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources

This conversation with M. Nazif Shahrani – Afghan American Professor of Anthropology, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, at Indiana University and Advisory Board Member of the National Center for Dialogue & Progress (NCDP), Kabul, Afghanistan – is the 204th in The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series. Publication Date: 2019. Publication Name: The Diplomat.

Nazif Shahrani is a professor of anthropology and of Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Nazif Shahrani was born in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. He completed his elementary education in the village of Shahran-i-Khaash, in Jurm district of Badakhshan, attended Ibnisina (Avecina) Middle School and Kabul Darul Mu'alimin (Kabul Teachers Training High School) in Kabul before entering the Faculty of Education at Kabul University, Afghanistan.

An extended new preface and a new epilogue, written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place the Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book, first published in 1979, 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. M. Nazif Shahrani, an Afghan anthropologist, is chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture at Indiana University.

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ISBN: 0295956690
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Category: Politics
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Author: M. Nazif Mohib Shahrani
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press; First Edition edition (1979)
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Nazif Shahrani’s Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan demonstrates the effect that restricted movement has for the economy and social structure of the Kirghiz living in the high Pamirs, which Shahrani terms “pastoral nomadic involution,” when a society experiences structural change without change in the accompanying culture (224). When the Kirghiz were forced into their summer pastures in the Wakhan corridor, the distribution of livestock between families was relatively even: most families owned between seventy and eighty animals, with no family owning more than fifteen hundred animals. The political structure of Kirghiz society was also relatively diffuse, with a number of influential khans representing smaller groups of kinsmen (171). Restricted movement has not only lead to the centralization of wealth and political power among rich Kirghiz households, but to the development of the kind of patron-client relationships characteristic of the nomadic economy in other parts of Inner Asia.

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Had to purchase this for my class and never ever regretted. It's an amazing study that is very helpful for understanding tangled relationships between Central Asian cultures. Would definitely recommend to a friend.

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