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  title info:
    title: Afghan craftsmen
    sub title: the cultures of three itinerant communities
  name:
    name part: Olesen, Asta
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Nicolaisen, Ida.
  name:
    name part: Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    place:
      place term: New York
    place:
      place term: Copenhagen
    publisher: Thames and Hudson
    publisher: Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 328 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
  abstract: A significant but little studied aspect of life in rural Afghanistan is the restriction of certain specialized occupations to particular ethnic groups. Many communities of artisans, tradesmen and entertainers form their own descent groups, either settled or leading nomadic or semi-nomadic lives.
  abstract: Afghan Craftsmen describes the lives and work of the migrating Musalli threshers, Shaykh Mohammadi peddlers and Ghorbat sievemakers, detailing their social and historical background as well as their interaction with settled communities. While the Musallis and the Ghorbat are specialist workers who share common descent, of Indian and probable Iranian origin respectively, the Shaykh Mohammadis have emerged as a spiritual body in Afghanistan, which over time has absorbed a number of unrelated occupational groups. All three share a low social position, economic marginality and a roving lifestyle. Their flourishing traditions of myths and legends reflect general West Asian religious folklore, and the inspiration of the Sufi mystics in traditional craft guild organization - a phenomenon so far little explored in Afghanistan. The volume concludes with a discussion of the social structure and characteristics of peripatetic nomadism.
  table of contents: Fieldwork among itinerant peoples -- East Afghan economy and society -- The Musalli threshers -- The Shaykh Mohammadi pedlars -- The Ghorbat sievemakers.
  note: Asta Olesen ; Ida Nicolaisen, editor-in-chief.
  note: "Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-315) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-af---
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Artisans
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Nomads
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Artisans
    geographic: Afghānistān
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Nomades
    geographic: Afghānistān
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Nomads
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
  subject:
    topic: Handicrafts
  subject:
    topic: Afghanistan
  classification: DS354 .O44 1994
  classification: 958.1/04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project (Series)
  identifier: 0500016127
  identifier: 9780500016121
  identifier: 94060295
  record info:
    record content source: NN
    record creation date: 940328
    record change date: 20240417171852.0
    record identifier: in00001199851
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng