The Hazaras of Afghanistan

ISBN-13: 9780700706303 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 292 str.

S. A. Mousavi

Opis

This work offers a study of the second largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan: the Hazaras. Largely Shi'ia by religion and Farsi-speaking, they traditionally inhabited Central Afghanistan, although were scattered across the country and into neighbouring countries as a result of the war. The Hazaras have recently become into a more influential position within the country's social fabric because its tribally-based pyramidal structure has been disrupted. As well as studying this group, this book also confronts the subject of an Afghan sense of national identity, a concept crucial to the resolution of Afghanistan's crises.

Study of the second largest but least well-known ethnic group in Afghanistan that also confronts the taboo subject of Afghan national identity. Largely Farsi-speaking Shi'ias, the Hazaras traditionally inhabited central Afghanistan, but because of the war are now widely scattered.

Recenzje

'A polemically motivated yet carefully researched synthesis of hitherto scattered information on the Hazaras.' - Peter Parkes, IRAI

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Who are the Hazaras?; 2: Social structure; 3: Culture and belief; 4: Socio-economic relations and mode of production; 5: Socio-political change in Hazara society since the 1890s; 6: Old people, new societies; 7: The Hazaras in contemporary Afghanistan; 8: The Hazaras in the 1980s; 9: The Hazars in the 1990s; Conclusion

O autorze

S. A. Mousavi