Life Among the Pathans (Khattaks)
Author : Buster Goodwin
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Pathans
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Author : Buster Goodwin
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Pathans
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Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113659891X
First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed’s study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of Pukhtun society based on the ideal Code of the Pukhtuns and to analyse the conditions of its maintenance and transformation. The author’s thesis is that this ideal model exists within Pukhtun society when interaction with larger state systems is minimal and in poor economic zones. In this way he posits an opposition between the Tribal Agencies along the border with Afghanistan, where ecological conditions are poor and state influence minimal, and the Settled Areas under state administration where Pukhtun society is forced away from its ideals.
Author : Richard Parkes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0244658242
This is a story of my Overland trips from London to Kathmandu in the early seventies. This was an interesting time with many changes going on, many of the travelers being born at the end of the Second World War and others post war baby boomers. We had moved through rock and roll, Dylan, Beatles, Hippies, the racial changes in the US, cold war, and still had the war in Vietnam, which most of us were against. What made us take an overland journey from Europe to Kathmandu? For many of us it was travel to the unknown, an adventure, plus an escape from conformity. It could be said it was the fore runner of the backpacker travel movement now a rite of passage for young people today. We in fact were following Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Monguls and Mughal invaders, Muslim Arab armies, as well as trading caravans which gave some of our route the romantic name of the Silk Road.
Author : James William Spain
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Pathans of the Latter Day is a sequel to the author's The Way of the Pathans written more than forty years ago and frequently cited in literature on Pakistan's north-west frontier since. It is a self-contained volume based on return visits to the Frontier in the 1980s and 1990s. A combination of history, personal experience, and interpretation, Pathans of the Latter Day details the origins and structure of the volatile tribesmen living along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, their highly developed code of law, Pukhtunwali, their acceptance of Pakistan, their relations with their Chinese neighbours, and their experiences during the wars in Afghanistan. A quietly humorous anecdotal style provides vivid glimpses of life among today's modernized Pathans, as well as among traditional tribesmen of the Afridi, Wazir, Mahsud, Yusufzai, Mohmand, and Khattak clans.
Author : Haroon Rashid
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnology
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Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134565275
A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "tribe", "segmentary societies" and "Islam in society". This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies from Morocco to Pakistan.
Author : Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
This book describes its Khan's involvement in the formation of Pakistan. The author, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq focuses on his experiences as part of the early diplomatic aristocracy. The book will captivate its readers with both its insider's history of the country and the many insights for current and future generations.
Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136810749
First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization. The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the ‘methodological individualists’ and the ‘methodological holists’, and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barth’s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the ‘Swat models’ have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Himalaya Mountains
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Author : East-West Center. Library
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1969
Category : East and West
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