Book
Nomads of Gharjistan: aspects of the economic, social and political organization of the nomadic Durrani Pashtun of Northwest Afghanistan
Franz Steiner Verlag • Wiesbaden • Published In 1977 • Pages: HRAF MS: i, 243 [Original: 12, 233 ]
By: Glatzer, Bernt, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes and analyzes some aspects of the socio-political organization, and economy of the Pashtun nomads of Northwest Afghanistan, a group belonging to several clans of the Durrani or 'western' Pashtuns who migrated into the area toward the end of the 19th century. This region, formerly called Gharjistan, is located between the Band-e Turkestan Range and the Hari Rud River in the provinces of Badghis and Ghor. Given particular attention in this source are the effects of the pastoral economy on various facets of the society - e. g., the property system, social and political structure, and warfare. In addition to the above, the source also contains information on geography, cultural history, and marriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Clans
- Lineages
- Ethics
- Community structure
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Pastoral activities
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pashtun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Durrani Pashtun, Gharjistan region, Provinces of Badghis and Ghor, northwest Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bernt Glatzer
- Translation of: [Nomaden von Gharjistan; Aspekte der wirtschaftlichen, sozialen, und politischen organisation nomadischer Durrani-Paschtunen in Nordwestafghanistan]. The original German text is not included
- Translated from the German for the Human Relations Area Files by Frieda Schütze
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78364311
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns