The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and WarUniversity of Washington Press, 20 Eyl 2012 - 304 sayfa An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China. |
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Part II Strategies of Adaptation | 53 |
Part III Closed Frontiers | 167 |
Glossary | 269 |
Bibliography | 281 |
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