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Marriage among the Pakhtun nomads of eastern Afghanistan
Folk • 24 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 65-87
By: Ferdinand, Klaus.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on marriage among the Tara Khel Pashtun nomads of eastern Afghanistan. The author describes engagement practices, activities of the betrothed, and the marriage ceremony among the Tara Khel Pashtun and analyzes Tara Khel marriage patterns and their determinants. The author concludes that while the Tara Khel Pashtun tend to follow a norm of endogamy, the boundaries within which marriage partners are sought for young people by their elders are flexible and reflect the influence of the demographic, economic, and political experiences of each household and lineage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Lineages
- 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
- 1960-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tara Khel Pashtun, eastern Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Klaus Ferdinand
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns