Ethnography at the frontier
Subtitle: space, memory and society in southern Balochistan
By: Ugo E.M. Fabietti
Series: Middle East, social and cultural studies = -- Études culturelles et sociales sur le Moyen Orient; Middle East, social and cultural studies
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9783034304221
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Ethnology; Ethnic relations
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spaces and places; title: Time and water; title: Equality and hierarchy; title: History and models; title: Blood and force; title: Nation and memory.