Description: Baloch and Others : Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan, Hardcover by Jahani, Carina (EDT); Korn, Agnes (EDT); Titus, Paul (EDT), ISBN 3895005916, ISBN-13 9783895005916, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Edited by Jahani (Iranian studies, Uppsala U. Sweden), Korn (comparative linguistics, U. of Frankfurt, Germany), and Titus (anthropology, U. of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand), this book is the outcome of the August 2005 International Conference on Balochistan, "Pluralism in Balochistan," which was hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala U., Sweden. It contains 16 papers by scholars from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences focusing on ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, and cultural pluralism is Balochistan, an arid region located in the Iranian Plateau in Asia, between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan and named after the Baloch tribes speaking Balochi, Pashto, Persian, Hazaragi, and Brahui languages. The papers are presented in sections focusing in turn on language; sociology and anthropology; and religion, history, and political sciences. Some examples of topics discussed include agent clitics in Balochi in comparison with other Iranian languages, metaphor in Balochi, urban change in Iranian Balochistan, traditionalism versus modernity in the methods of measuring time in Iranian Balochistan, the Baloch national movement and its recent revival, the role of Baloch mercenaries in the 19th century slave trade in the Indian Ocean, and external influences on the Baloch nationalist movement. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Baloch and Others : Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Pe
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Baloch and Others : Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan
Language: English
Publisher: Reichert DR., Ludwig
Subject: Sociology / General, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / General, Linguistics / General, Middle East / General
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.9 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author: Agnes Korn
Format: Hardcover
