Suchergebnisse

Commemorative seminar on the 100th birth day anniversary of Muḥammad Akbar, Pāmīr, 1910 or 11-1972 or 3

Historical study on the role and parliamentary activities of National Assembly of Afghanistan from its birth till 2010

Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual

Important documents, criminal records and correspondence during communism and history of Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 in Afghanistan

Essays on history, politics and good governance in Afghanistan

This text uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop an understanding of disparate themes, including conflict, power, agency, morality, emotion and gender. It brings together two methodological traditions - microscopic analysis of unelicited interaction and macroscopic interpretation of social practice