The Religions of the Hindukush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Religions of the Hindukush write by Karl Jettmar. This book was released on 1990-12-01. The Religions of the Hindukush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pagan Christmas
Pagan Christmas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Christmas write by Augusto S. Cacopardo. This book was released on 2017-02-15. Pagan Christmas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley in the Chitral district of Pakistan, focusing on their winter feasts, which culminate every year in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha are not only the last example of a pre-Islamic culture in the Hindu Kush and Karakorum mountains but also practice the last observable example anywhere in the world of an archaic Indo-European religion. In this book, Augusto S. Cacopardo takes readers inside the world of the Kalasha people. Cacopardo outlines the history and culture of this ancient but still extant people. Exploring an array of relevant literature, he enriches our understanding of their practices and beliefs through illuminating comparisons with both the Indian religious world and the religious folklore of Europe. Bringing together several disciplinary approaches and drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book offers the first extended study of this little-known but fascinating Kalasha community. It will take its place as a standard international reference source on the anthropology, ethnography, and history of religions in Pakistan and Central South Asia.
The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush
The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush write by Sir George Scott Robertson. This book was released on 1896. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kafiristan, or "The Land of the Infidels," was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush is a detailed ethnographic account of the Kafirs, written by George Scott Robertson (1852-1916), a British administrator in India. With the approval of the government of India, Robertson made a preliminary visit to Kafiristan in October 1889, and then lived among the Kafirs for almost a year, from October 1890 to September 1891. Robertson describes his journey from Chitral (in present-day Pakistan) to Kafiristan and the difficulties he encountered in traveling about the country and in gaining information about the Kafir culture and religion. The latter, he writes, "is a somewhat low form of idolatry, with an admixture of ancestor-worship and some traces of fire-worship also. The gods and goddesses are numerous, and of varying degrees of importance or popularity." Robertson describes religious practices and ceremonies, the tribal and clan structure of Kafir society, the role of slavery, the different villages in the region, and everyday life and social customs, including dress, diet, festivals, sport, the role of women in society, and much else that he observed first-hand. The book is illustrated with drawings, and it concludes with a large fold-out topographical map, which shows the author's route in Kafiristan. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the "Land of Light," a reference to the enlightenment brought by Islam.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment write by Philippus Wester. This book was released on 2019-01-04. The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is based on the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, experts and policymakers, brought together by the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) under the coordination of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). This assessment was conducted between 2013 and 2017 as the first of a series of monitoring and assessment reports, under the guidance of the HIMAP Steering Committee: Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD), Atiq Raman (Bangladesh), Yuba Raj Khatiwada (Nepal), Linxiu Zhang (China), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Tandong Yao (China) and David Molden (ICIMOD and Chair of the HIMAP SC). This First HKH Assessment Report consists of 16 chapters, which comprehensively assess the current state of knowledge of the HKH region, increase the understanding of various drivers of change and their impacts, address critical data gaps and develop a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations. These are linked to nine mountain priorities for the mountains and people of the HKH consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals. This book is a must-read for policy makers, academics and students interested in this important region and an essentially important resource for contributors to global assessments such as the IPCC reports.
The Religions of the Hindukush
The Religions of the Hindukush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Religions of the Hindukush write by Karl Jettmar. This book was released on 2020-01-31. The Religions of the Hindukush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Complete, updated English translation of a seminal work on Central Asian religions first available in German in 1975* An extensive new bibliography of over 950 entries listing works that have updated Jettmar's original studies to the present time* An essential reference for all people and institutions with a interest in Asian religion* Relevant not only to students of the cultures of the Hindukush region but also to those with an interest in the current practice of popular religion in the borderlands of Tibet, such as Ladakh "It may safely be assumed that this study will not be replaced as a standard work of reference." - Per Kvaerne, Journal of the Tibet Society. " ... future scholars of this region must take Jettmar as their indispensable guide and point of departure." - Peter Parkes, Man, New Series, Vol. 22, No. 3.The traditional religion and rituals of the remote tribal groups along the borderlands of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, with their complex cosmology of gods and demons, preserved elements from archaic Indo-Aryan, and possibly even pre-Vedic, beliefs. While the peoples of this region were converted to Islam by the turn of the 20th century, geography and the deeply conservative nature of these tribes combined to preserve ancient folk religious practices long extinct elsewhere. The author integrates the diverse scholarly findings of colleagues in the fields of linguistics, cultural history and archaeology with his own field investigations to construct an authoritative, yet highly readable account of the religious practices of this remote and little understood corner of Asia. A ground-breaking and indispensable reference both for the general student of Asian religions and for those with a special focus on the tribal cultures of eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. The work has also been updated with an extensive new bibliography.
