Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

Ahmed, Akbar S

ISBN 10: 0710083483 / ISBN 13: 9780710083487

Edité par Routledge & Kegan Paul, United Kingdom, 1976

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hardback, octavo, faint spotting to the closed top edge, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text and in a lightly age-toned pictorial dust jacket. 173pp.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology
• Éditeur: Routledge & Kegan Paul, United Kingdom
• Date de parution: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0710083483
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780710083487
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

1976. First Edition. 173 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization.

The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the ‘methodological individualists’ and the ‘methodological holists’, and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barth’s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the ‘Swat models’ have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.