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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Pathans
  name:
    name part: Ahmed, Akbar S.
  name:
    name part: Singer, André
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: director.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1980
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (39 min.).
  abstract: There are twelve million Pathans. Bound by a common language, a common heritage and the unifying force of Islam, these proud and independent people do not acknowledge the geographical boundary which divides them between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This film was shot at the same time as Khyber in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border. The Pathans accept no imposed leadership, from without or from within. Their laws are the decisions of the democratic assembly of the village, known as the jirga. To disobey the jirga is to court heavy penalties against which there is no appeal. Their code of living is called pukhtunwali the way of the Pathan. At its core are the principles of hospitality, personal honour and revenge. A man will fight to the death to avenge a wrong done to himself, his family or friends or, above all, his women. The film is noteworthy for the way in which it brings out the importance of these values. Their fierce loyalty, coupled with the independence of spirit which tolerates no formal leaders, makes the Pathans a formidable enemy, as the British once found out and, more recently, the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan have discovered.
  target audience: general
  note: directed by Andre Singer.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Recorded in Pakistan.
  note: Previously released as DVD.
  note: This edition in English.
  subject:
    topic: Pushtuns
    geographic: Pakistan
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Afghans
    geographic: Pakistan
  subject:
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: Pakistan
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Pakistan
  subject:
    geographic: Pakistan
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: GN303 .T447 1980
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)437024484
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Disappearing world
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 140206
    record change date: 20260324205651.0
    record identifier: in00003749732