Acculturation in Afghan Turkistan: Pashtun and Uzbek women

In: Asian affairs: journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 35-44

Abstract

This paper concerns some aspects of relations between Uzbeks and Durrani Pashtuns in northcentral Afghanistan. Certain features of social organization in the two groups, particularly the way the ethnic boundary is maintained between them, the classes of people who interact, and the social role of women. The nature of Uzbek-Durrani relations is rooted in political and economic conflict. Marriage rules serve both to distinguish Uzbek and Durrani and to keep them apart, in theory and in practice. Strict Uzbek rules of female seclusion and the status of the Uzbek women. (DÜI-Sen)