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Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women - The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan (Paperback)
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Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women - The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan (Paperback)
Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
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The Pukhtuns are numerically and politically one of the most
significant ethno-linguistic groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This important study of Pukhtun society concentrates on the lives,
thoughts and gham-khadi (funerals-weddings) ceremonies of the
women, especially of the elite, wealthy and educated women
(Bibiane) who have largely been overlooked in previous studies.
Contesting their conventional representation as idle, it
illustrates their commitment to various forms of work within
familial and social contexts. It challenges the commonly assumed
models of contemporary Pakistan society, which make a simplistic
divide between rural and urban, Punjab and non-Punjab, and feudal
and non-feudal spaces and peoples. It also contributes to broader
debates about the nature and expression of elite cultures and
issues of sociality, funerals and marriage, custom and religion,
space and gender, morality and reason, and social role and
personhood within the contexts of Islam in the Middle East and
South Asia.
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