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Agnates, affines and allies: patterns of marriage among Pashtun in Kunar, North-East Afghanistan
Folk • 24 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 29-63
By: Christensen, Asger.
Abstract
This is a discussion of the variation in types of marriage and the determinants of marriage patterns among sedentary Pashtun agriculturalists in Kunar in north-east Afghanistan. The author focuses on the implications of the following factors for marriage patterns: the solidarity and opposition among lineage mates, the ethnic heterogeneity of the Kunar region, social stratification within Pashtun society, and the rights and interests of men and lineages in women. The author concludes that marriage among the sedentary Pashtun of Kunar does not obey any single, unconscious model or norm, but, rather, that each marriage is a strategy in the larger economic, social, and political history of a family and lineage.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field Date
- 1977-1978
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Kunar Valley, northeastern Afghanistan
- Notes
- Asger Christensen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 63)
- LCSH
- Pushtuns