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Sheikhanzai women: sisters, mothers and wives
Ethnos • 52 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 180-199
By: Tavakolian, Bahram.
Abstract
This article focuses on the role of women as managers of resources in the goat-and-sheep-herding economy of the Sheikhanzai pastoralists of Afghanistan. The author first reviews the literature concerning women's contributions in pastoralist societies of the Middle East. A discussion of social organization of the Sheikhanzai camps follows. The number of animals owned determines the size of households which in turn are grouped together to form a camp. According to the author's thesis, women's power is derived from two aspects of their domestic roles. First, women have control over wool and hair by-products from which tents are made and they are particularly responsible for dairy production and household distribution. Second, even after women are married, they maintain close ties to their brothers thereby influencing the lives of both men and women in the camps.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Delores Walters ; 1988
- Field Date
- 1976-1977
- Coverage Date
- 1976-1977
- Coverage Place
- Sheikhanzai Pashtun, western Afghanistan
- Notes
- Bahram Tavakolian
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-199)
- LCCN
- 45053696
- LCSH
- Pushtuns