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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Exiles -- Prologue: Swat -- Who's Who? -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Before -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Before -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Before -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Before & -- Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- 7-Eleven -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- Pakistan Now -- Notes.

First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed's study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of Pukhtun society based on the ideal Code of the Pukhtuns and to analyse the conditions of its maintenance and transformation. The author's thesis is that this ideal model exists within Pukht

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Map -- 1 Prologue: Introducing the Piruzai -- Great Games in Afghanistan -- Afghan Turkistan: the setting -- Pashtuns come to Sar-e-pol -- The Piruzai -- The Piruzai economy -- Population growth and change -- Village life in 1971 -- The narrators -- 2 The Es'hâqzai Come North -- The move north -- From Kandahar . . . -- . . to Turkistan -- Resisting the khans -- Wazir Mahmad-gol Mohmand -- The khans in 1970 -- 3 Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-pol -- Elections -- Elections for People's Assembly 1965 -- Elections for Senate 1969 -- Elections for People's Assembly 1969 -- Ethnic Categories -- 'Afghan' and 'Fârsibân' -- Uzbeks and others -- Marrying strangers: Rangin and Golshâh Taymani -- The Runaways -- The quest in Day-kondi -- Petitioning the government in Kabul -- The fallout -- A Moral Tale of Abduction and Revenge -- 4 Tribal Politics -- Murder and Revenge -- The Piruzai Feud -- I: In the mountains -- II: At the wedding -- III: Peacemaking, marriages -- Village Factions -- Groups -- Leaders -- 'Upper' vs 'Lower' Konjek -- 5 A Shepherd's Life1 -- The Tale of the Shepherd and the Judge -- The Flocks -- The Nomad Trail -- Châ gol's first trip -- The flash-flood and the dervish -- Home -- The Pastoral Year -- Mating and lambing -- Lambs and spring grazing -- Hard work in the mountains -- Autumn and winter -- Shepherding Contracts -- Employees -- Partners -- 6 For the Animals -- Camel Care -- An Old Wolf 's Tale -- An Old Wolf's Tale -- Wolves and thieves -- The tick man -- The Tale of Nokhodak -- Expedition to the Salt-pan -- A Terrible Winter -- 7 Land: A Golden Tent-Peg -- The Value of Land -- Water Rights -- Inheritance -- 8 On the Farm -- The Tale of the Ox, the Donkey and the Hen.

This article focuses on the clandestine role of women in aiding and abetting terrorism in the valley of Swat, Pakistan. It is based in extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the valley. The article investigates how women got involved in colluding with the Taliban when they took over the valley. Focusing on the class structure of the semi-tribal society of Swat Pushtuns, especially the segregation between men and women, the article suggests the Taliban exploited the long-built tension between the poor landless class and the rich landed class to convince the women of the former to collude with them with the promise of ameliorating their condition.

Historical and ethnographic background -- Rohullah: shifting subjectivities and the crafting of a private masculinity -- Umar: the making, and un-making, of a religious militant -- Baryalay: between cultural and personal representational worlds -- Rahmat: the dilemmas of a "perfect" Pashtun -- Between what "was" and what "is": four tales -- Conclusion: the search for "meaning" within a shared psychic reality.

'Trading Worlds' is an anthropological study of Afghan merchants in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The work argues that the merchants collectively form a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading network.

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social o

"Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that the failure, or even unwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into their state structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric is central to these dynamics, and a critical failure of nation- and state-building in both states. In his book he argues that religious extremism is the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for the situation lies to some degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtun Question describes a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan."--

The culture of the Pathans, or Pushtuns is complicated, sometimes contradictory, and rooted in a traditional code. They inhabit a harsh land and have posed an administrative challenge for decades, hence the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). But after independence, the situation was relatively peaceful for thirty years until the Russian invasion of Afghanistan changed everything. The freedom fighters defeated the Russians, but brought with them the culture of religious extremism and violence which cause such problems today. Furthermore, many foreign fighters settled in the area, a ready pool of manpower for the current war. For a while US support for the war against terror strengthened the position of General Musharraf. But not for ever and the increasing threat to the state posed by the Pakistani Taliban has resulted in the new civilian government backing major offensives by the Pakistani military in the tribal areas. (Asian Aff/GIGA)