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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lineages
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Status, role, and prestige
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kunar Valley, northeastern Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Asger Christensen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 63)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns