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Author : Maureen Lines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Kalasha People of North-Western Pakistan written by Maureen Lines and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Yves Loude
Publisher : Ishi Press
ISBN 13 : 9784871875271
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Kalash Solstice written by Jean-Yves Loude and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2017-06-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kalash are a tribe living high in the Hindu Kush mountains of NorthWest Pakistan. This book is the most complete and detailed study ever undertaken of the Kalash people. The authors, a French couple, lived among the Kalash and became so absorbed into the Kalash that they became as much as possible Kalash themselves. The woman in the partnership, Viviane Liever, even had her hair done in the Kalash way and had a black gown made in the way of Kalash women. She wore a Kalash headgear that Kalash women wear. They did this over a period of many years starting in 1976, coming to visit the Kalash valleys every one or two years with only a few gaps. The Solstice in English occurs twice each year, around June 20 and December 22, as the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion. The Kalash explain that they are looking at the sun every morning at sunrise time. As the Kalash live high in the mountains, the sun appears in between the high peaks each morning. Each day the sun appears at a slightly different place. The Kalash have names for each of these individual places in between the peaks. They look at the place in the mountains where the sun shines through. Each morning, the sun moves from 22 December to 20 June and then moves back. So the Kalash calculate the days and months of the year by these movements of the sun relative to the mountain peaks.
Author : Wynne Maggi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067831
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Our Women are Free written by Wynne Maggi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province
Author : Shaheen Sardar Ali
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136778683
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities of Pakistan written by Shaheen Sardar Ali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the issues facing indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, including their role in the nation's constitutional and legal developments, and makes a number of recommendations which would satisfy their demands without compromising the sovereignty of the state.
Author : Bina Sengar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981198722X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World written by Bina Sengar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book provides perceptions on “indigeneity” through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of “indigenous” in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars who are engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832962
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book European Language Matters written by Peter Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.
Author : Charles Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871873772
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Kalash Siaposh Kafirs History and Customs by Charles Masson written by Charles Masson and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one chapter, Chapter XI, of the book "Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab and Kalat 1826-1838" by Charles Masson. This chapter describes the "Siaposh Kafirs" or "Wearers of the Black Robes." The Siaposh Kafirs are now known as the Kalash. They inhabit three valleys in Chitral in NorthWest Pakistan. The valleys are Bumboret, Birir and Rumbur. There are now only three thousand of these Kalash left. The rest have converted to Islam. However, their numbers are increasing, with more babies being born and a decline in the infant mortality rare. There are two kinds of Kafirs: Red and Black. The Red Kafirs are now called the Nuristanis. They inhabit the area of Nuristan in Afghanistan. There are also some Nuristani villages in the far upper parts of Bumboret, Birir and Rumbur. The Black Kafirs are known for wearing Black dress. You will see references to the color Black in the pages here. For example: "The males of the infidels, whose souls are said to have been more black than their garments," This book was first published in 1844. In spite of the passage of 127 years, little has changed. The females still wear the same black outfits with a headdress made of corwie shells and they dance in the same way. There are differences of opinion as to whether the Kalash have or had the same religion as the Nuristanis and whether they are the same people. The similarities between them are that they both do not bury their dead but put their dead in wooden boxes above ground, and both sit on small wooden stools and do not sit on the ground.
Author : Augusto S. Cacopardo
Publisher : Gingko Library
ISBN 13 : 1909942855
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Pagan Christmas written by Augusto S. Cacopardo and published by Gingko Library. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley in the Chitral district of Pakistan, focusing on their winter feasts, which culminate every year in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha are not only the last example of a pre-Islamic culture in the Hindu Kush and Karakorum mountains but also practice the last observable example anywhere in the world of an archaic Indo-European religion. In this book, Augusto S. Cacopardo takes readers inside the world of the Kalasha people. Cacopardo outlines the history and culture of this ancient but still extant people. Exploring an array of relevant literature, he enriches our understanding of their practices and beliefs through illuminating comparisons with both the Indian religious world and the religious folklore of Europe. Bringing together several disciplinary approaches and drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book offers the first extended study of this little-known but fascinating Kalasha community. It will take its place as a standard international reference source on the anthropology, ethnography, and history of religions in Pakistan and Central South Asia.
Author : Margaret Stutley
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415273183
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Shamanism written by Margaret Stutley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravelling the history, ideologies and rites of shamanism, Margaret Stutley provides an authoritative guide to one of the world's most ancient, notorious and frequently misrepresented spiritual traditions.
Author : Mytte Fentz
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 9788787062565
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Natural Resources and Cosmology in Changing Kalasha Society written by Mytte Fentz and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393063224
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Author : Barbara A. West
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119135
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania written by Barbara A. West and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical listing of information on the peoples of Asia and Oceania including origins, prehistory, history, culture, languages, and relationships to other cultures.
Author : Sir George Scott Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafiristan, or "The Land of the Infidels," was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush is a detailed ethnographic account of the Kafirs, written by George Scott Robertson (1852-1916), a British administrator in India. With the approval of the government of India, Robertson made a preliminary visit to Kafiristan in October 1889, and then lived among the Kafirs for almost a year, from October 1890 to September 1891. Robertson describes his journey from Chitral (in present-day Pakistan) to Kafiristan and the difficulties he encountered in traveling about the country and in gaining information about the Kafir culture and religion. The latter, he writes, "is a somewhat low form of idolatry, with an admixture of ancestor-worship and some traces of fire-worship also. The gods and goddesses are numerous, and of varying degrees of importance or popularity." Robertson describes religious practices and ceremonies, the tribal and clan structure of Kafir society, the role of slavery, the different villages in the region, and everyday life and social customs, including dress, diet, festivals, sport, the role of women in society, and much else that he observed first-hand. The book is illustrated with drawings, and it concludes with a large fold-out topographical map, which shows the author's route in Kafiristan. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the "Land of Light," a reference to the enlightenment brought by Islam.
Author : Maureen Lines
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond the North-West Frontier written by Maureen Lines and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387315368
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Gerard Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471114724
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms written by Gerard Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.
Author : Michael Buckley
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841622040
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Shangri-La written by Michael Buckley and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appealing to the adventure traveler or armchair reader who simply wishes to browse and dream, this guide promises to lead them into the glorious reality and breathtaking landscapes of the Himalayas.
