| Summary: | The Pamir peoples live in one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, the western Pamir Mountains in the Mountain-Badakhshan District of Tajikistan. The Pamirians are an ethnic subgroup of the Tajiks and include various named groups, some of whom live in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The dialects of these groups are mostly mutually unintelligible. Western Iranian Farsi of India and the Dari language of Afghanistan are lingua francas. Grain and legume agriculture and animal husbandry are the primary economic activities. The Pamirians belong to the Isma'ili sect of Islam. This file contains one document that was originally published in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 1994. It is a cultural summary of the Pamir peoples that includes information on their history, settlement patterns, economy, kinship, marriage, family, sociopolitical organization, and religion.
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