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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Anderson, Jon W.
Title:
Social structure and the veil: comportment and the composition
of interaction in Afghanistan
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Anthropos -- Vol. 77, no. 3/4
Published By: Original publisher
Anthropos -- Vol. 77, no. 3/4
Salzburg, Oesterreich: Zaunrith'sche Buch-, Kunst- und
Steindruckerei. 1982. 397-320 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Jon W. Anderson
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2002. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Pashtun (AU04)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Gender status (562);
Social relationships and groups (571);
Etiquette (576);
Household (592);
Sexuality (831);
General sex restrictions (834);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Among the Ghilzai Pashtun of Afghanistan, women are veiled
or secluded from those men in the society with whom there is a potential for marriage.
According to Anderson avoidance is mutual between men and women; he says that …'men 'veil'
too -- and cognate behaviors occur in other relationships where differentiation is
deemphasized as the focus of interaction' (p. 397). Two forms of symbolism associated with
the veil are HAJAH or extreme politeness and a 'rough' mode of interaction between
individuals in which relationships are framed in terms of differences between participants.
The author's interpretation of the ways in which the veil is used and the placement of the
veil in the context of meaings seem to suggest that its significance is not so much to keep
men and women apart but to bring them together by regulating the terms in which they are
socially present. Changes in the practice are consistent with alterations of social
contexts rather than with changes in ideas about the identities of men and women (p.
397).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
26
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
au04-026
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-420)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2001
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ghilzai Pashtun, Afghanistan
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Pushtuns
