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Tribe and community among the Ghilzai Pashtun: preliminary notes on ethnographic distribution and variation in eastern Afghanistan
Anthropos • 70 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 575-601
By: Anderson, Jon W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a preliminary report on some basic ethnographic features of tribal distribution, settlement patterns, and community organization in the Ghilzai Pashtun region of eastern Afghanistan (p. 575). Additional data are also presented on the names of the various Ghilzai Pashtun groups, ecology of the region, land tenure, and economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Tribe and nation
- Community structure
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1973
- 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)
- Ghilzai Pashtun region, eastern Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jon Anderson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 600-601)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07021775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns