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Marginality and modernity : ethnicity and change in post-colonial Balochistan / edited by Paul Titus.
- Title
- Marginality and modernity : ethnicity and change in post-colonial Balochistan / edited by Paul Titus.
- Publication
- Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Titus, Paul Brian.
- Description
- xxviii, 331 p. : maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Although the Baloch maintained a high degree of autonomy until the post-colonial era, they have in recent decades faced increasing encapsulation in the states among which they are divided - Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. They now find themselves facing situations similar to those confronting other tribal peoples in the Middle East and elsewhere. Because of their division among states and the marginal position they occupy within those states, ethnicity and nationalism often assume great significance." "The articles in this volume bring together the work of many leading European, American, and Pakistani scholars working on Balochistan, and makes up for the serious shortage of scholarly work on the Baloch. They deal with various aspects of Baloch social life in which ethnicity is salient, and examine how Baloch identity is being transformed by the presence of such factors as markets, roads and institutions of the state." --Book Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-321) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Equality versus hierarchy: conceptualizing change in southern Balochistan / Ugo Fabietti -- Gwat and Gwat-i-leb: spirit healing and social change in Makran / Farhat Sultana -- Trial by ordeal among Bugtis: ritual as a diacritical factor in Baloch ethnicity / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Periphery and identiy: process of detribalization among the Baloch of Afghanistan / Erwin Orywal -- Poetry and politics: nationalism and language standardization in the Balochi litarary movement / Carina Jahani -- Ethnic binds and pedagogies of resistance: Baloch nationalism and educational innovation in Karachi / Richard Slimbach -- Beyond parody: ethnography engages nationalist discource / Nina Swidler.
- Tribal structures and religious tolerance: Hindus in Pakistani Balochistan / Fred Scholz -- Islam, the state, and identity: the Zikris of Balochistan / Inayatullah Baloch -- Land, water, and ethnicity: social organization and resource management in irrigated communities in Balochistan / Frank van Steenbergen -- Routes to ethnicity: roads, buses, and differential ethnic relations in Pakistani Balochistan / Paul Titus.
- ISBN
- 019577633X
- LCCN
- ^^^95930748^
- OCLC
- 35014647
- SCSB-9981093
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library