Category: Field Studies
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Some Important Cultural Sites in the Northern Pakistan: The Old and historic Buildings in Hunza Valley with a Special Focus on Gulmit
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction This important contribution tries to target the old houses and cultural sites that exist in Hunza valley but they have not yet appropriately drew the attention of the related stakeholders.For this purpose, the intiation could be seen from Gulmit, the headquarters of Upper Hunza or Gojal Sub-division of Hunza district.…
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Globalization and Mode of Exchanges: The State of Intangible Cultural Heritages of Gilgit-Baltistan region, Northern Pakistan
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction It was back in February 2011 when I was pursuing my PhD coursework from Quaid-e Azam University, Islamabad (Pakistan),I was invited to a conference convened by Lok Virsa, Islamabad (within the Ministry of Culture) to present a paper on the state of intangible cultural heritages of Gilgit-Baltistan Region.as there was…
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Conditions of Civil Society ORGANIZATIONS in the Northern Pakistan: EFFECTIVE WAYS OF STRENGTHENING LOCAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS IN UPPER HUNZA
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction This exploratory and analytical study I conducted in June 2013 (along side my engagement with AKRSP and a founding member and advisor of Gojal LSO Network) attempts to study critically the LSOs of Gojal in Hunza Valley and genuinely identify their issues, and suggest effective strategies for their long term…
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The Ismaili Tajik Community of China: An Anthropological Exploration and Field Results
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction The Ismaili community, comprised on millions of population, is a branch of the Shia Islam found in more than 50 countries around the world. They are brought up and fostered in diverse cultural and regional settings; and thus, they make up a global community having a unitary command led by…
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Community, Conflicts and Development Approaches: A Qualitative Inquiry of Satpara Development Project in the Northern Pakistan
By Fazal Amin Beg Background This evaluation study of societal development I conducted for a period of half a year contracted bythe Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in October 2016. Although, it was a five years’ evaluation study, it provided a great opportunity to look into the development intervention from an applied anthropological context,…
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Xinjiang Mission 2006: A Navigation in the Anthropological Landscape of Wakhi and Kirghiz Communities in China
BY FAZAL AMIN BEG 1. Background This paper I had written in 2006 in result of my fiel study in Xinjiang Region of China that I visited in summer , and am publishing it Online on this website. Section 2 of this paper begins with introduction and also specifies the objectives as well as the…
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CULTURE, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN: THE ART OF BUILDING IRRIGATION CHANNELS IN HUNZA-NAGAR DISTRICT OF GILGIT-BALTISTAN REGION
By Fazal Amin Beg 1. BACKGROUND From the outset, I’d like to clarify here and we must accept and understand that when we conduct such kind of studies on diferent target communities related with applied side of development, many community members and respondents share information with us (as field researchers) conditionally that the positive facets…
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SOCIETAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN HUNZA VALLEY in the Northern Pakistan: A Case STUDY of the Mountain Community and Settlement of Ghulkin
By Fazal Amin Beg Abstract This study presents a holistic picture of the development and change from the people’s perspective in the mountain society of Hunza valley by taking the village of Ghulkin as a case and the AKRSP’s intervention year in the rural settlement [1983] as a reference point. Development and changes are seen…
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Anthropology of Wakhan: Fieldwork Report 2007 (Summer Trip)
By Fazal Amin Beg 1. Background I visited Afghanistan in 2007 and lived in Kabul for nearly a month in two trips but the focus of my academic mission was on Wakhan valley of Badakhshan province. For the first time, I visited Afghanistan in Spring 2007 (March-May).The important parts of the report of my Wakhan…