ISBN: 9780195776331 - Marginality and Modernity: Ethnicity and Change in Post-colonial Balochistan (1 results)

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.…