Afghan Village Voices

Stories from a Tribal Community

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvRichard Tapper,Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper

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Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of the Middle East and Central Asia, Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper-Lindisfarne, this is a book of stories told by the Piruzai, a rural Afghan community of some 200 families who farmed in northern Afghanistan and in summer took their flocks to the central Hazârajât mountains. The book comprises a collection of remarkable stories, folktales and conversations and provides unprecedented insight into the depth and colour of these people’s lives. Recorded in the early 1970s, the stories range from memories of the Piruzai migration to the north a half century before, to the feuds, ethnic strife and the doings of powerful khans. There are also stories of falling in love, elopements, marriages, childbirth and the world of spirits. The book includes vignettes of the narrators, photographs, maps and a full glossary. It is a remarkable document of Afghanistan at peace, told by a people whose voices have rarely been heard.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt916 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor528
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755600854

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Richard Tapper is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. His publications include the monographs Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict, and Ritual among Shahsevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran, as well as Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform.Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K for many years. She has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Wales and the USA. Her books include Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society, Dancing in Damascus, The Roots of Sexual Violence, and the edited Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, and Masculinities under Neoliberalism.

PrefaceList of Maps, Tables and FiguresList of illustrationsChapter 1 – Prologue: Introducing the PiruzaiChapter 2 – The Es’haqzai Come NorthChapter 3 – Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-PolChapter 4 – Tribal PoliticsChapter 5 – A Shepherd’s LifeChapter 6 – For the AnimalsChapter 7 – Land: A Golden Tent-PegChapter 8 – On the FarmChapter 9 – Other BusinessChapter 10 – The Marriage MarketChapter 11 – Family MattersChapter 12 – Religion, Life, Death, DiseaseChapter 13 – The World of JinnsChapter 14 – Shrines, Sufis, ExorcismChapter 15 – Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972Appendices 1 – Ancestors2 – Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-20163 – Recording and Editing the StoriesGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

This is therefore a considerable collection, both in terms of quality and quantity, representing an enormous amount of work, first of transcribing the contents of the magnetic tapes, then of translating the transcribed texts from Pashtu into English ... The resident originality and interest of the work of Tappe: delivering the speech lived in Piruzai on themselves, it offers an attractive the illustration of the sometimes called the perspective emic (indigenous) distinguishing it from the perspective etic (one of the researchers, anthropologists , sociologists, historians, etc). Through a richness and authenticity of the information, Afghan Village Voices could possibly encourage some researchers to attempt an etic approach without having to endure the discomforts of the ethnographic field!