Social and economic change in the Pamirs
Subtitle: (Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan)
By: Frank Bliss ; translated from the German by Nicola Pacult and Sonia Guss with support of Tim Sharp.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Ethnology -- Pamir Region.; Kūḣistonī Badakhshon (Tajikistan) -- Economic conditions.; Kūḣistonī Badakhshon (Tajikistan) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: General features of Gorno-Badakhshan; value: History of the Pamirs; value: Ethnology of the Pamirs; value: The Kyrgyzes of the Murgab; value: Ismailis and Sunnis; value: Economy and society in the Soviet system; value: At the bottom; value: the economic collapse; value: International development aid; value: Development constraints and prospects.