The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan : adaptation to closed frontiers and war / M. Nazif Shahrani ; with a new preface and epilogue by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahrani, M. Nazif Mohib, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kyrgyz.

Wakhi (Asian people).

Vākhān (Afghanistan : Region)--Social life and customs.

Vākhān (Afghanistan : Region).

Physical Description:

xli, 302 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2002]

Contents:

Preface to the 2002 Edition: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Global Terror, Inc. ix

Part I. Space, Time, and Human Communities

1. The Ecological Setting 3

2. History and Demographic Process 19

Part II. Strategies of Adaptation

3. The Wakhi High-Altitude Agropastoral Adaptation 55

4. The Kirghiz Pastoral Subsistence System 87

5. The Kirghiz People, the Oey, and the Qorow 118

6. The Kirghiz Sociocultural System 150

Part III. Closed Frontiers

7. Territorial Loss: An Intracultural Adaption 169

8. Adaptation to Socioeconomic and Cultural Restrictions 186

Epilogue: Coping with a Communist "Revolution," State Failure, and War 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.

ISBN:

0295982624

OCLC:

49386163