Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals): Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society

by Akbar Ahmed

Book Overview

First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed's study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of Pukhtun society based on the ideal Code of the Pukhtuns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415688116
• ISBN13: 9780415688116
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"