ISBN:
9783034304221
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 143, 15 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
210 mm x 148 mm
Series Statement:
Middle East, social and cultural studies 1
Series Statement:
Middle East, social and cultural studies
Uniform Title:
Etnografia della frontiera 〈engl.〉
DDC:
305.80095491/5
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Balochistān (Pakistan) Ethnic relations
;
Balochistān (Pakistan) Social life and customs
;
Balochistān (Pakistan) Politics and government
;
Makran
;
Dorfgemeinschaft
;
Sozialstruktur
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Nationalismus
;
Feldforschung
;
Ethnologie
;
Makran
;
Dorfgemeinschaft
;
Sozialstruktur
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Nationalismus
;
Feldforschung
;
Ethnologie
Abstract:
"This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing spaces, constructing memory, the heritage of a form of social stratifiation which shaped community relationships in the last three centuries, and, last but not least, the insurgence of nationalism. Furthermore, the book puts forward some theoretical proposals about the translation of cultural "models", throughout a constant comparison between the author's and his interlocutors', alternating ethno-graphic "descriptions" with reflxive arguments. Notwithstanding its remoteness, Balochistan is today at the conflence of forces which reflct both local and "global" logics, pushing this land, once only visited by few adventurous travelers, in the focus of international interests which could impinge on political evolution of this sensitive area straddling South Asia and Middle East."--Publisher's description
Note:
Spaces and places -- Time and water -- Equality and hierarchy -- History and models -- Blood and force -- Nation and memory.
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