Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780415617963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 194 str.

Akbar Ahmed

Opis

This 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.

Spis treści

Part 1: 1. The Swat Pathans and the Theory of Games　 2. The Swat Pathan Understood　 3. The Swat Pathan Misunderstood　 Part 2:　 4. A Theory of Pathan Economic Structure and Political Organization 5. A Note on Sufic Orders and Islamic Revivalism in the Nineteenth Century　 Part 3:　 6. Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans　 7. Models and Method in Anthropology