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Tribe and community among the Ghilzai Pashtunarticle 1978 • Anderson, Jon W.
Pashtun • Asia > Central Asia
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...There are no KHANS anymorearticle 1978 • Anderson, Jon W.
Pashtun • Asia > Central Asia
This document discusses economic development and social change in Afghanistan with a particular focus on the introduction of the tractor into agriculture and its effects on Pashtun society. The author also emphasizes the significant role that the KHA...Social structure and the veilarticle 1982 • Anderson, Jon W.
Pashtun • Asia > Central Asia
Among the Ghilzai Pashtun of Afghanistan, women are veiled or secluded from those men in the society with whom there is a potential for marriage. According to Anderson avoidance is mutual between men and women; he says that …'men 'veil' too -- and co...