ISBN:
978-0-415-59995-5
,
978-0-415-30806-9
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 378 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Transferred to digital printing 2010
Keywords:
Tadschikistan Berg-Badachschan
;
Seidenstraße
;
Kirgise
;
Ismailiten
;
Pamiri
;
Sunna
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Organisation, internationale
;
Lebensstil
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Arbeitslosigkeit
;
Armut
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Pamir 〈Gebirge, Zentralasien〉
Abstract:
This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the history, anthropology and recent social and economic development of the Pamiri people in Gorno-Badakhshan, Eastern Tajikistan since Olufsen and Schulz published their monographs on the Pamirs in 1904 and 1914. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, such high mountain areas were more or less forgotten and people would have suffered severely from their isolation if an Aga Khan Foundation project in 1993-4 had not afforded broader support. A picture of an almost surrealistic world: Pamiri income and living conditions after 1991 dropped to the level of a poor Sahelian country, and former scientists, university professors and engineers found themselves using ox-ploughs to plant potatoes and wheat for survival. In contrast to this, a literacy rate of 100% and excellent skills have proved to be an enormous human capital resource for economic recovery, resulting in agricultural production, which during Soviet times had never occurred.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 362-378
