Afghan village voices : stories from a tribal community / edited by Richard Tapper with Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tapper, Richard, author.

Contributor:

Tapper, Richard, editor.

Lindisfarne-Tapper, Nancy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghanistan--History--20th century.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 499 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2020.

Summary:

"Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of the Middle East and Central Asia, Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper-Lindisfarne, this is a book of stories told by the Piruzai, a rural Afghan community of some 200 families who farmed in northern Afghanistan and in summer took their flocks to the central Hazŕajt́ mountains. The book comprises a collection of remarkable stories, folktales and conversations and provides unprecedented insight into the depth and colour of these people's lives. Recorded in the early 1970s, the stories range from memories of the Piruzai migration to the north a half century before, to the feuds, ethnic strife and the doings of powerful khans. There are also stories of falling in love, elopements, marriages, childbirth and the world of spirits. The book includes vignettes of the narrators, photographs, maps and a full glossary. It is a remarkable document of Afghanistan at peace, told by a people whose voices have rarely been heard."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

List of Maps, Tables and Figures

List of illustrations

Chapter 1 - Prologue: Introducing the Piruzai

Chapter 2 - The Es'haqzai Come North

Chapter 3 - Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-Pol

Chapter 4 - Tribal Politics

Chapter 5 - A Shepherd's Life

Chapter 6 - For the Animals

Chapter 7 - PEG Land: A Golden Tent-Peg

Chapter 8 - On the Farm

Chapter 9 - Other Business

Chapter 10 - The Marriage Market

Chapter 11 - Family Matters

Chapter 12 - Religion, Life, Death, Disease

Chapter 13 - The World of Jinns

Chapter 14 - Shrines, Sufis, Exorcism

Chapter 15 - Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972

Appendices - 1 - Ancestors

2 - Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-2016

3 - Recording and Editing the Stories

Glossary Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755600892

0755600894

9780755600878

0755600878

OCLC:

1158224436