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I'm in the process of compiling a bibliography for potential topics for my honor thesis, and I'm gonna paste here the one I think is most relevant to Pukhtuns. I was (and still am) interested in Pashtuns' notion of honor and how it influences women's agency/power in marriage -- primarily BEFORE marriage (i.e., partner selection patterns). Someone on my committee suggested, instead, that this is more a PhD thesis than a bachelor's. Sure, I'm now all the more motivated to go ahead with it, BUT that was to imply that I will need much longer than a mere 3-6 months for the study.
Khair, I still wanted the bibliography for my pleasure, so here goes it. I want us to look at the differences between the titles of the books/articles (and hence their objectives) composed by PASHTUN women/researchers and non-Pashtun women/researchers. I find it rather interesting how Pashtun women represent the concept of honor and what they see in it versus how non-Pashtun women/men say about it. Perhaps it is because, as Pashtuns ourselves, we live inside our culture and experience the consequences, whether good or bad, of honor ourselves, whereas non-Pashtun women and other outsider researchers don't; they therefore see what we don't, and they don't see what we see.
Anyway, here's the bibliography. It's NOT finalized, so there will be issues of citations at this point, but it's more for me than for anyone else. I'll update it as I search more. Be mindful that some of the sources below are on honor in general in other (Muslim/eastern) societies. If anyone's got more, P L E A S E share! Many Thanks in advance!
Honor, Women, and the Pashtun Society
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Honor and the Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society.” American Ethnologist 12, no. 2 (1985).
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in the Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Abu-Zajra. Nadia. “Material Power, Honor, Friendship, and the Etiquette of Visiting.” Anthropological Quarterly 47, no. I (1974).
Ahmed, Amineh. "Gendering Pukhtunwali." The News International. Nov.16. 2000.
Ahmed, Amineh. Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Anderson, Jon W. “How Afghans Define Themselves in Relation to Islam.” In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield. Berkeley: Institute for International Studies, 1984.
Atayee, M. Ibrahim. A Dictionary of the Terminology of Pashtun’s Tribal Customary Law and Usage, translated by A. Mohammad Shinwari. Kabul,: International Center for Pashto Studies, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, 1979.
Barth, Fredrik. Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Boesen, Inger W. “Women, Honour, and Love: Some Aspects of the Pashtun Woman’s life in Eastern Afghanistan.” Folks (1979 – 80).
Boesen, Inger W. “Conflicts of Solidarity in Pashtun Women’s Lives.” In Women’ in Islamic Societies: Social Attitudes and Historical Perspectives, edited by Bo Utas.
Canfield, Robert L. “Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan.” In The Realm of the Extra Human, edited by A. Bharati. The Hangue: Mouton, 1977.
Currer, Caroline. Pathan Mothers in Bradford. Warwick, United Kingdom: University of Warwick, 1981.
Currer, Caroline. “Lay Concepts of Illness and Depression, and Their Relation to Illness Bheavior, amongst Pathan Mothers in an English City.” In Proceedings of Workship on Lay Culture and Illness Behavior, edited by B. Tax. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Department of Social Medicine, 1984.
Drumbl, Mark A. Rights, Culture, and Crime: The Role of Rule of Law for the Women of Afghanistan.
Geertz, Clifford. “Religion as the Cultural System.” In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Grima, Benedicte. “The Pakhtun Tapos: From Biography to Autobiography.” Asian Folklore Studies 44 (1985).
Grima, Benedicte. The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women: The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me. University of Texas Press, 1992.
Grima, Benedicte. “The Role of Suffering in Women’s Performance of Paxto.” In Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions, edited by A. Appadurai, F. Korom, and M. Mills. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Grima, Benedicte. Secrets from The Field: An Ethnographer's Notes From North Western Pakistan
Grima, Benedicte.. “Suffering as Esthetic and Ethic among Pashtun Women.” Women’s Studies Internatioinal Forum 9, no. 3 (1986).
Emadi, Hafizullah. Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan (Karachi: Royal Book Co, 2002)
"Honor," "Shame," "Loya Jirga." In Encyclopedia of Modern Islam, John Esposito, ed. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ismati, Muhaqiq Massoma. The Position and Role of Afghan Women.
Khattak, Saba Gul. “Adversarial discourses, Analogous Objectives: Controlling Afghan Women” (Cultural Dynamics, 2004); and “Insecurity: Afghan refugee camps and politics in Pakistan” (Journal of Critical Asian Studies 2003).
Knabe, Erika. “Afghan Women: Does Their Role Change?” in Louis Dupree and Linette Albert (eds.), Afghanistan in the 1970s (New York: Praeger, 1974).
Maggi, Wynne. Our Women are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001). (Ann
Minallah, Samar. “A License to Kill," accessed online (.::Ethnomedia & Development::.).
Minallah, Samar. "A Threat to Honour."
Minallah, Samar. "A Tale of Two Wives."
Minallah, Samar. "Killed for Pride."
"Pakhtunwali" and "`Aql & Nafs." In South Asian Folklore Encyclopedia, edited by Peter Claus & Margaret Mills. New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
"Social structure & the veil: comportment & the composition of interaction in Afghanistan," Anthropos 77, 1982.
Tapper, Nancy. Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Tapper, Nancy. “Causes and Consequences of the Abolition of Brideprice in Afghanistan.” In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1984.
Tapper, Nancy. “Pashtun Nomad Women in Afghanistan.” Asian Affairs 8 (1977).
"Tribe & community among Ghilzai Pashtun," Anthropos 70, 1975.
Yassari, Nadjma. The Shar’a in the Constitutions of Afghanistan, Iran, and Egypt: Implications for Private Law (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005).
Pukhtun Women: Traditional Role, Contemporary Challenges
http://www.valleyswat.net/literature...un%20Women.pdf
“Being Pashtun – Being Muslim: Concepts of Person and War in Afghanistan” by Bernt Glatzer. http://www.khyber.org/publications/0...latzer1998.pdf (what is namus? What is its relationship with nang? What is sharam? Relationships between men and women in the Pashtun society.)
Khair, I still wanted the bibliography for my pleasure, so here goes it. I want us to look at the differences between the titles of the books/articles (and hence their objectives) composed by PASHTUN women/researchers and non-Pashtun women/researchers. I find it rather interesting how Pashtun women represent the concept of honor and what they see in it versus how non-Pashtun women/men say about it. Perhaps it is because, as Pashtuns ourselves, we live inside our culture and experience the consequences, whether good or bad, of honor ourselves, whereas non-Pashtun women and other outsider researchers don't; they therefore see what we don't, and they don't see what we see.
Anyway, here's the bibliography. It's NOT finalized, so there will be issues of citations at this point, but it's more for me than for anyone else. I'll update it as I search more. Be mindful that some of the sources below are on honor in general in other (Muslim/eastern) societies. If anyone's got more, P L E A S E share! Many Thanks in advance!
Honor, Women, and the Pashtun Society
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Honor and the Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society.” American Ethnologist 12, no. 2 (1985).
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in the Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Abu-Zajra. Nadia. “Material Power, Honor, Friendship, and the Etiquette of Visiting.” Anthropological Quarterly 47, no. I (1974).
Ahmed, Amineh. "Gendering Pukhtunwali." The News International. Nov.16. 2000.
Ahmed, Amineh. Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Anderson, Jon W. “How Afghans Define Themselves in Relation to Islam.” In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield. Berkeley: Institute for International Studies, 1984.
Atayee, M. Ibrahim. A Dictionary of the Terminology of Pashtun’s Tribal Customary Law and Usage, translated by A. Mohammad Shinwari. Kabul,: International Center for Pashto Studies, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, 1979.
Barth, Fredrik. Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Boesen, Inger W. “Women, Honour, and Love: Some Aspects of the Pashtun Woman’s life in Eastern Afghanistan.” Folks (1979 – 80).
Boesen, Inger W. “Conflicts of Solidarity in Pashtun Women’s Lives.” In Women’ in Islamic Societies: Social Attitudes and Historical Perspectives, edited by Bo Utas.
Canfield, Robert L. “Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan.” In The Realm of the Extra Human, edited by A. Bharati. The Hangue: Mouton, 1977.
Currer, Caroline. Pathan Mothers in Bradford. Warwick, United Kingdom: University of Warwick, 1981.
Currer, Caroline. “Lay Concepts of Illness and Depression, and Their Relation to Illness Bheavior, amongst Pathan Mothers in an English City.” In Proceedings of Workship on Lay Culture and Illness Behavior, edited by B. Tax. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Department of Social Medicine, 1984.
Drumbl, Mark A. Rights, Culture, and Crime: The Role of Rule of Law for the Women of Afghanistan.
Geertz, Clifford. “Religion as the Cultural System.” In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Grima, Benedicte. “The Pakhtun Tapos: From Biography to Autobiography.” Asian Folklore Studies 44 (1985).
Grima, Benedicte. The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women: The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me. University of Texas Press, 1992.
Grima, Benedicte. “The Role of Suffering in Women’s Performance of Paxto.” In Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions, edited by A. Appadurai, F. Korom, and M. Mills. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Grima, Benedicte. Secrets from The Field: An Ethnographer's Notes From North Western Pakistan
Grima, Benedicte.. “Suffering as Esthetic and Ethic among Pashtun Women.” Women’s Studies Internatioinal Forum 9, no. 3 (1986).
Emadi, Hafizullah. Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan (Karachi: Royal Book Co, 2002)
"Honor," "Shame," "Loya Jirga." In Encyclopedia of Modern Islam, John Esposito, ed. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ismati, Muhaqiq Massoma. The Position and Role of Afghan Women.
Khattak, Saba Gul. “Adversarial discourses, Analogous Objectives: Controlling Afghan Women” (Cultural Dynamics, 2004); and “Insecurity: Afghan refugee camps and politics in Pakistan” (Journal of Critical Asian Studies 2003).
Knabe, Erika. “Afghan Women: Does Their Role Change?” in Louis Dupree and Linette Albert (eds.), Afghanistan in the 1970s (New York: Praeger, 1974).
Maggi, Wynne. Our Women are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001). (Ann
Minallah, Samar. “A License to Kill," accessed online (.::Ethnomedia & Development::.).
Minallah, Samar. "A Threat to Honour."
Minallah, Samar. "A Tale of Two Wives."
Minallah, Samar. "Killed for Pride."
"Pakhtunwali" and "`Aql & Nafs." In South Asian Folklore Encyclopedia, edited by Peter Claus & Margaret Mills. New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
"Social structure & the veil: comportment & the composition of interaction in Afghanistan," Anthropos 77, 1982.
Tapper, Nancy. Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Tapper, Nancy. “Causes and Consequences of the Abolition of Brideprice in Afghanistan.” In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1984.
Tapper, Nancy. “Pashtun Nomad Women in Afghanistan.” Asian Affairs 8 (1977).
"Tribe & community among Ghilzai Pashtun," Anthropos 70, 1975.
Yassari, Nadjma. The Shar’a in the Constitutions of Afghanistan, Iran, and Egypt: Implications for Private Law (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005).
Pukhtun Women: Traditional Role, Contemporary Challenges
http://www.valleyswat.net/literature...un%20Women.pdf
“Being Pashtun – Being Muslim: Concepts of Person and War in Afghanistan” by Bernt Glatzer. http://www.khyber.org/publications/0...latzer1998.pdf (what is namus? What is its relationship with nang? What is sharam? Relationships between men and women in the Pashtun society.)
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