Description
Book SynopsisThis new edition of a highly praised ethnography of nomadic peoples in Afghanistan includes a discussion of the colonial roots of terrorism written since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
Trade Review“A carefully developed ethnography that will surely be appreciated as one of the finest on peoples in Central Asia.
* MESA Bulletin *
“Shahrani’s work is doubly significant: it is an account of a people that are now virtually inaccessible to anthropological inquiry; and it is a work by a local or native anthropologist.
* Journal of Asian Studies *
"This is a distinctive work, a valuable addition to studies of high-altitude adaptations that is still cited..The republication of the monograph, along with the new material, will enable another generation to appreciate this important work."
* Journal of Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface to the 2002 Edition: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Global Terror, Inc.
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction
Part One | Space, Time, and Human Communities
1. The Ecological Setting
2. History and Demographic Process
Part Two | Strategies of Adaptation
3. The Wakhi High-Altitude Agropastoral Adaptation
4. The Kirghiz Pastoral Subsistence System
5. The Kirghiz People, the Oey, and the Qorow
Part Three | Closed Frontier
6. Territorial Loss: an Intracultural Adaptation
7. Adaptation to Socioeconomic and Cultural Restrictions
Conclusion
Epilogue: Coping with a Communist "Revolution," State Failure, and War
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
