Fredrik Barth

Features of Person and Society in Swat

Collected Essays on Pathans

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1981, Features of Person and Society in Swat brings together Professor Barth's writings on the Swat Pathans. Professor Barth's investigations of Swat Pathan society revealed aspects which were often at variance with the prevailing anthropological paradigm of the 1950s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041021032
• ISBN-10: 1041021038
• Artikelnr.: 72542216

Autorenporträt

Fredrik Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University and had previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He was well-known among anthropologists for his transactional analysis of politic processes in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan and his study of microeconomic processes and entrepreneurship in Darfur in Sudan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North
Pakistan 2. The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan 3.
Segmentary opposition and the Theory of Games: A study of Pathan
organization 4. Role dilemmas and father-son dominance in Middle Eastern
kinship systems 5. Ethnic processes on the Pathan-Baluch boundary 6. Pathan
identity and its maintenance 7. Swat Pathans reconsidered