Ethnic processes and intergroup relations in contemporary Afghanistan : paper presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the middle east studies association at New York city November 10, 1977 / organized and edited by Jon W. Anderson and Richard F. Strand.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: ; (Occasional paper No. 15 of the Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society)Publication details: New York : Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society, 1978.Description: ii, 45 p. ; 28 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • Pamphlet DS 354.5 .A53 1978
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Cover page.

“Summer 1978”.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Preface—Introduction and overview

Jon W. Anderson (p. 1)—Ethnic competition and tribal schism in eastern Nuristan

Richard F. Strand (p. 9)—Ethnic relations and access to resources in northeast Badakhshan

M. Nazif Shahrani (p. 15)—The impact of Pashtun immigration on nomadic pastoralism in northeastern Afghanistan

Thomas J. Barfield (p. 26)—Religious myth as ethnic boundary

Robert L. Canfield (p. 35)—References cited.

English