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The Pashtuns of Kunar: tribe, class and community organization
Afghanistan Journal • 7 (3) • Published In 1980 • Pages: 79-92
By: Christensen, Asger.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents some of the main features of tribal distribution and local community organization of the Kunar Pashtun in northeastern Afghanistan. The stated goals of this work are to fill in some of the important gaps in the existing anthropological literature on Afghanistan, to supplement the data on the Ghilzai Pashtun by Anderson, and to provide additional information on the tribal groups living north of the Kabul River. The document provides a brief description of the major Pashtun groups in Kunar Province -- the Safi, Shimwari, Tarkanri, Mashwani, and the Mohmand -- their community organization, trade relations, settlements, class differentiation (broken down by land ownership, tenancy, and artisan groups), migration patterns, and to some extent, culture history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Internal migration
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Occupational specialization
- Tribe and nation
- 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
- August 1977 - November 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kunar Province, northeastern Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Asger Christensen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 92)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75640521
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns