TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fabietti, Ugo E. M.
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - Ethnography at the frontier: space, memory and society in Southern Balochistan
T3  - Middle East, social and cultural studies
CY  - Bern
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Balochistān
KW  - Balochistān (Pakistan)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Politics and government
AB  - "This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing spaces, constructing memory, the heritage of a form of social stratifiation which shaped community relationships in the last three centuries, and, last but not least, the insurgence of nationalism. Furthermore, the book puts forward some theoretical proposals about the translation of cultural "models", throughout a constant comparison between the author's and his interlocutors', alternating ethno-graphic "descriptions" with reflxive arguments. Notwithstanding its remoteness, Balochistan is today at the conflence of forces which reflct both local and "global" logics, pushing this land, once only visited by few adventurous travelers, in the focus of international interests which could impinge on political evolution of this sensitive area straddling South Asia and Middle East."--Publisher's description
SN  - 9783034304221
LA  - English
N1  - Ugo E. M. Fabietti
ID  - 1616328924
ER  -