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Sheikhanzai women: sisters, mothers and wives
Ethnos • 52 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 180-199
By: Tavakolian, Bahram.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on the role of women as managers of resources in the goat-and-sheep-herding economy of the Sheikhanzai pastoralists of Afghanistan. The author first reviews the literature concerning women's contributions in pastoralist societies of the Middle East. A discussion of social organization of the Sheikhanzai camps follows. The number of animals owned determines the size of households which in turn are grouped together to form a camp. According to the author's thesis, women's power is derived from two aspects of their domestic roles. First, women have control over wool and hair by-products from which tents are made and they are particularly responsible for dairy production and household distribution. Second, even after women are married, they maintain close ties to their brothers thereby influencing the lives of both men and women in the camps.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Lineages
- Household
- Social relationships and groups
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Visiting and hospitality
- Pastoral activities
- Dairying
- Kin relationships
- 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
- article
- 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
- Delores Walters ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sheikhanzai Pashtun, western Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bahram Tavakolian
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-199)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45053696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns