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Women, honour and love: some aspects of the Pashtun woman's life in eastern Afghanistan
Afghanistan Journal • 7 (3) • Published In 1980 • Pages: 50-59
By: Boesen, Inger W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with a brief overview of several dimensions of women's status in Pashtun society in eastern Afghanistan. The topics covered include the difference in Islamic and Pashtun norms regarding the status of women with respect to marriage and divorce, inheritance and control of property, and participation in public religious life; the system of purdah, the socialization of girls into purdah, and variations in purdah according to the socio-economic status of a woman's family; the life and work of women; the relationship between the newly-married woman and her mother-in-law; and the extent to which women participate in challenging and perpetuating the norms that govern their status and behavior, as reflected in the special women's songs known as landai.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Gender status
- Ethics
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Basis of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Termination of marriage
- Extramarital sex relations
- Transmission of cultural norms
- 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
- John Beierle ; 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, eastern Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Inger W. Boesen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75640521
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns