Category: Field Studies
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The Chinese Wakhi Marriage System in Xinjiang
By Fazal Amin Beg INTRODUCTION This interesting paper (within socio-cultural anthropology) is extracted out of my consistent and focused field study of over one month in 2000 (18 years ago), which was part of my M. Phil Dissertation that aimed to explore, describe and interpret the “Chinese Wakhi Marriage System.” The research locale was the…
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Anthropology of Wakhan: Cultural Development and Potentials among the Wakhi Community in the Northern Afghanistan
By Fazal Amin Beg Background This report is out of my fieldwork on the anthropology of Wakhan in the Northern Afghanistan that I conducted in Spring of 2007. Although, this same year, I re-visited the locale in Afghanistan, that has a separate report. Here I’m going to publish only the introduction and conclusion cum…
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Anthropology and Development: An Intensive Qualitative Survey OF Keil Within Pakistan Administered KASHMIR
By Fazal Amin Beg[*] 1. Concepts and Contexts Whenever a development intervention for a community in a region is required or desired, two main perspectives become imperative to be kept in mind. First, the state of the natural resources that support the survival of the community; and second, the state of humankinds living in…
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Significance OF HALDEIKISH ROCK ART OF HUNZA in the KARAKORAM Region, Northern Pakistan
By Fazal Amin Beg This article, which I’m sharing here on my website today, was a term paper during my doctoral coursework in 2011. I hope it’d provide an effective insight into the theme of discussion to the respective readers as it’s not mere an archeological piece depending on the secondary sources but rather also…
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A Situation Analysis of the Environment of Hunza Valley in the Northern Pakistan with regard to the emerging Climate Change Issues
By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction It was back in june 2009 that Karakoram Area Development Organization (KADO), a distinguished regional civil society organization in the Northern Pakistan, requested me to write a concept paper for it on the emerging global theme of climate change issues contextually within Hunza valley and KADO’s area of intervention. Consequently,…
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An Anthropological Survey of the Ethnic Composition and Identity Shift among the Mountain communities: Approaches and Experiences of Preserving and Promoting the Hunza Wakhi Language in Gilgit-Baltistan Region in the Northern Pakistan
By Fazal Amin Beg ABSTRACT Based on my fieldwork learning, experiences and observations, this paper aims to explore from an anthropologically holistic perstpective the Wakhi language within the framework of ethnic composition of the Wakhi language of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in the northern Pakistan and across the border in the Peoples Republic of China, Afghanistan…