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001 2011036663
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008 110831s2011 sz ab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011036663
020 $a9783034304221
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050 00 $aGN635.P27$bF33 2011
082 00 $a305.80095491/5$223
100 1 $aFabietti, Ugo,$d1950-
245 10 $aEthnography at the frontier :$bspace, memory and society in southern Balochistan /$cUgo E.M. Fabietti.
260 $aBern ;$aNew York :$bP. Lang,$c2011.
300 $aVIII, 142, A-15 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
490 0 $aMiddle East, social and cultural studies =$aÉtudes culturelles et sociales sur le Moyen Orient.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSpaces and places -- Time and water -- Equality and hierarchy -- History and models -- Blood and force -- Nation and memory.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aEthnology$zPakistan$zBalochistān.
651 0 $aBalochistān (Pakistan)$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aBalochistān (Pakistan)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aBalochistān (Pakistan)$xPolitics and government.
830 0 $aMiddle East, social and cultural studies.