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On Two Views of the Swat Pushtun [and Comments]
Louis Dupree,Fredrik Barth,C-J. Charpentier,Joyce Pettigrew,Mark Slobin,Bahram M. Tavakolian +5 more
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This paper found that the language of food offerings uses contrasting combinations with a meaning of totality comparable to antithetical idiomatic expressions, a stylistic feature peculiar to verbal languages and one for which Dravidian tongues have a predilection.Abstract:
languages. The most unexpected finding will be that the language of food offerings uses contrasting combinations with a meaning of totality comparable to antithetical idiomatic expressions, a stylistic feature peculiar to verbal languages and one for which Dravidian tongues have a predilection. Though the ritual of naivedya isonly an imperfect language, it cannot be denied, I think, that it uses linguistic procedures and that some of its symbols have linguistic meaning.read more
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Death and Celebration among Muslim Women: A Case Study from Pakistan
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Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels
TL;DR: The authors argued that traditional Tibet can best be regarded as a stateless society and the closest analogies to these societies are not the Buddhist and Hindu states of South, Southeast, and East Asia, but some of the Islamic societies of Central Asia and North Africa.
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The world is established through the work of existence : the performance of Gham-Khadi among Pukhtun Bibiane in Northern Pakistan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the social lives of elite Pukhtun women or Bibiane in northern Pakistan, with an ethnographic focus on the enactment of particular life-cycle or gham-khadi ceremonies (funerals and weddings).
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Understanding Peacebuilding Through Anthropological Perspectives on Organizations and Sovereignty
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Tibet as a Stateless Society and
TL;DR: The authors argued that traditional Tibet can best be regarded as a stateless society and the closest analogies to these societies are not the Buddhist and Hindu states of South, Southeast, and East Asia, but some of the Islamic societies of Central Asia and North Africa.
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Homo hierarchicus : the caste system and its implications /Louis Dumont ; translated by Mark Sainsbury
TL;DR: The second edition of Dumont's "Homo Hierarchicus" is presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition as discussed by the authors, which provides the reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies.
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Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications
TL;DR: The second edition of Dumont's "Homo Hierarchicus" is presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition as discussed by the authors, which provides the reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies.
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Political leadership among Swat Pathans
TL;DR: A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans, emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes as mentioned in this paper. But it does not consider the role of women in political leadership.
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Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonized tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to their large scale social context, and discuss the relation between disputes and struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social control and stability.