Social and economic change in the Pamirs : (Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan) /
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| Author / Creator: | Bliss, Frank. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description: | xviii, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5791215 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- The basic situation
- Study methods
- On the subject of the book
- 2. General features of Gorno-Badakhshan
- Physical geography
- Natural resources
- Landscapes of the Pamirs from a cultural-geographic perspective
- The population of Gorno-Badakhshan
- 3. History of the Pamirs
- The Pamirs and the Silk Road
- The pre-Islamic period
- From Islam to the eve of the Great Game
- The Great Game and the Russian occupation of the Pamirs
- The early Soviet period
- Travellers on the 'roof of the world'
- 4. Ethnology of the Pamiris
- Indo-Europeans in the Pamirs
- Economy
- Power and administration
- Pamiri society
- Household life
- Inventory of material culture
- Communications and transportation
- Music, dance, games and poetry of the Pamiris
- 5. The Kyrgyz of the Murghab
- History and tribal organisation
- Kyrgyz traditional economy
- Housing and equipment
- Social life
- 6. Ismailis and Sunnis
- Islam and Islamic groups in the Pamirs
- Ancient religious traces and current popular faith
- 7. Economy and society in the Soviet system
- Public administration and Soviet development policy
- Collectivisation of agriculture and the economy of the state farms
- Social infrastructure in Soviet times
- Employment, income and individual prosperity
- Soviet society, family and gender
- 8. The economic collapse
- The end of the Soviet Union and the civil war in Tajikistan
- Economic collapse
- Employment, income and diet
- Agriculture, industry and trade
- Social infrastructure and services
- Socio-cultural effects
- 9. International development aid
- The Humanitarian Assistance Programme of the Aga Khan Foundation
- Agricultural development
- Other economic and welfare activities
- Communal development
- The programme's impact on agriculture, productivity and diet
- Impact on industry, business and trade
- Society in transition and the 'new thinking'
- A summary of external development assistance
- 10. Development constraints and prospects
- The development potentials and constraints of the Pamir region
- Induced development constraints: drugs and border troops
- Development prospects and conclusions
- Glossary
- Notes
- Select bibliography
