The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan

Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War

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Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War

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"An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world.

The original book 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 offer valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities."--BOOK JACKET.

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Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
2013, University of Washington Press
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The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
November 2002, University of Washington Press
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Library of Congress
DS354.6.K57S5 2002, DS354.6.K57 S5 2002

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Paperback
Number of pages
304
Dimensions
8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1 pounds

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Open Library
OL9463761M
Internet Archive
kirghizwakhiofaf0000shah_w6k6
ISBN 10
0295982624
ISBN 13
9780295982625
LCCN
2002018095
OCLC/WorldCat
49386163
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4695062
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2550757

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