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Nomadism & colonialism : a hundred years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972 / Fred Scholz ; translated from the German by Hugh van Skyhawk.
Van Pelt Library GN635.P27 S3713 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scholz, Fred.
- Standardized Title:
- Belutschistan (Pakistan). English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Nomads--Balochistan Region.
- Nomads.
- Balochistan Region--Colonial influence.
- Balochistan Region.
- Balochistan Region--Social conditions.
- Baluchistan--Social conditions--19th century.
- Baluchistan--Social conditions--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Baluchistan--Social conditions--19th century.
- Baluchistan--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Nomadism and colonialism.
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- A physical and cultural geographical introduction to the province of Baluchistan
- The basis of economic and living conditions in Baluchistan in terms of physical geography
- Some historical and cultural geographic aspects for an understanding of economic and living conditions in Baluchistan
- Thoughts on a social-geographic concept for the analysis of modern change in nomadic tribes
- Development in nomadic Lebensraum (living space) reflected in geographic research
- An experiment in the establishment of theoretical principles of modern change-in the nomadic Lebensraum
- Regional mobility-a definition of terms
- Formulation of the research question and overview of the methodological structure of the main part
- Analysis of the changes in the nomadic Lebensraum of Baluchistan since the beginning of British colonial rule (dose of the nineteenth century)
- The principal tribal groups, Baloch, Brahui, and Pathans, at the close of the nineteenth century
- developments overarching the tribes since the close of the nineteenth century
- Changes in the tribes of Baluchistan and their present condition
- Individual case studies: Process and result of changes in two selected tribes
- The Hasni tribe
- The Bangulzai tribe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195796381
- OCLC:
- 49988369
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