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"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page."
- Neil Postman
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| | The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan:
Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
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| | by M. Nazif Shahrani
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ZIN Product Number: 10056913
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 304 pages
Edition: REV
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295982624
Release Date: Jan 9, 2002
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An extended new preface and a new epilogue, written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book, first published in 1979, describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, and the Peopleís Republic of China.
The new Preface challenges the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is religious. Shahrani asserts that the problem of terrorism is fundamentally political and is historically linked to the inappropriate model of the centralized nation-state introduced to Afghanistan by colonial regimes.
The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue. Shahrani has closely followed the flight of the Kirghiz to Pakistan in 1978 and their eventual resettlement among resentful Kurdish villagers in eastern Turkey in 1982. The ethnographic documentation and analysis of the transformation of Kirghiz society, politics, economics, and demography since their exodus from the Pamirs offers valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities.
M. Nazif Shahrani, an Afghan anthropo-logist, is chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture at Indiana University.
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