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Afghan nomads in transition : a century of change among the Zala Khān Khēl / Gorm Pedersen ; Ida Nicolaisen, editor-in-chief.
- Title
- Afghan nomads in transition : a century of change among the Zala Khān Khēl / Gorm Pedersen ; Ida Nicolaisen, editor-in-chief.
- Author
- Pedersen, Gorm.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Thames and Hudson ; Copenhagen : Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1994.
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- Description
- 266 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project
- Uniform Title
- Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project (Series)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction I: Danish nomad research in Afghanistan -- Introduction II: The term nomad : a clarification -- I. Land of the nomads -- II. Zala Khan Khel -- III. Expansion and constraints : pastoral economy and nomad trade up to the 1960s -- Complex society -- Zala Khan Khel's nomadism and trading -- Changing circumstances -- IV. Turning point : the 1950s and 1960s -- Trading comes to an end -- Socio-economic differentiation -- V. Economic development and decline : Zala Khan Khel in the 1970s -- Settled lorry-owners -- Migrant landowners -- Poor man's lot -- Bazaar-I Omaid -- VI. Way of life comes to an end -- Settlement and new migration patterns -- Genealogical division -- Changes in the role of leadership -- Identity and transformation -- VII. Zala Khan Khel in exile -- War and instability -- Exile -- Revival of nomadism?
- ISBN
- 0500016399
- LCCN
- ^^^94061394^
- OCLC
- 31984952
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library