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This volume is a collection of articles by leading scholars from all over the world on the Baloch, one of south west Asia's largest yet least studied ethnic groups.
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This volume is a collection of articles by leading scholars from all over the world on the Baloch, one of South West Asia's largest yet least-studied ethnic groups. It may be of interest to students of political science, anthropology, sociology, South Asian and Middle Eastern studies.
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Marginality and Modernity : Ethnicity and Change in Post-colonial Balochistan
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Oxford University Press (1996), Karachi, 1996
ISBN 10: 019577633X
ISBN 13: 9780195776331
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Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark/John Jackson Books, Svendborg, Denmark
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orig. cloth. 22x14cm, xxviii,331 pp. Contents: Equality versus hierarchy: conceptualizing change in southern Balochistan / Ugo Fabietti -- Gwat and Gwat-i-leb: spirit healing and social change in Makran / Farhat Sultana -- Trial by ordeal among Bugtis: ritual as a diacritical factor in Baloch ethnicity / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Periphery and identiy: process of detribalization among the Baloch of Afghanistan / Erwin Orywal -- Poetry and politics: nationalism and language standardization in the Balochi litarary movement / Carina Jahani -- Ethnic binds and pedagogies of resistance: Baloch nationalism and educational innovation in Karachi / Richard Slimbach -- Beyond parody: ethnography engages nationalist discource / Nina Swidler. Tribal structures and religious tolerance: Hindus in Pakistani Balochistan / Fred Scholz -- Islam, the state, and identity: the Zikris of Balochistan / Inayatullah Baloch -- Land, water, and ethnicity: social organization and resource management in irrigated communities in Balochistan / Frank van Steenbergen -- Routes to ethnicity: roads, buses, and differential ethnic relations in Pakistani Balochistan / Paul Titus. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 024907