1st Edition
Features of Person and Society in Swat Collected Essays on Pathans
Introduction 1. Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan 2. The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan 3. Segmentary opposition and the Theory of Games: A study of Pathan organization 4. Role dilemmas and father-son dominance in Middle Eastern kinship systems 5. Ethnic processes on the Pathan-Baluch boundary 6. Pathan identity and its maintenance 7. Swat Pathans reconsidered
Biography
Fredrik Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University and had previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He was well-known among anthropologists for his transactional analysis of politic processes in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan and his study of microeconomic processes and entrepreneurship in Darfur in Sudan.
