At the Foot of the Fairy Mountain: The Nagerkuts of the Karakoram/Northern Pakistan. Myths – Traditions – Folklife

Jürgen Wasim Frebgen

doi:10.5771/9783496030676

Summary

Die ethno-historische Studie dokumentiert die mythischen Überlieferungen, Traditionen und die Geschichte der Nagerkuts, einem Bergvolk aus dem Karakorum-Gebirge / Nordpakistan. Der Autor reist seit den 1980er Jahren in die Region und schildert die Lebenswelt eines Volkes, das bis 1972 als eines der letzten Sakralkönigreiche der Welt existierte.

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Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-496-03067-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-496-03067-6
Publisher: Reimer, Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 242
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 7
Prologue No access Pages 8 - 17
Notes on Ethnographic Fieldwork and Acknowledgements No access Pages 18 - 22
An Anthropologist’s Introduction No access Pages 23 - 28
1. Introduction No access
2. The Country No access
3. Population Groups and Languages No access
4. Social Organisation No access
5. The Village Setting No access
6. Economy No access
7. Arts and Crafts No access
8. Trade No access
9. Extraction of Natural Resources No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Local Oral Traditions No access
3. Origin of the Clans No access
4. Genealogy of the Moghlotkuts No access
5. The Ancient Past No access
6. The Progressive Settlement of Nager No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Seasonal and Agrarian Feasts No access
3. Lifecycle Rites No access
4. Indigenous Religion No access
5. Twelver-Shiʽa, Muslim Saints and Islamic Festivals No access
6. Foodways No access
Epilogue No access Pages 187 - 187
1. Local Masters of Memory and Men of Knowledge No access
2. Theft of Human Remains from Uyum Nager in 1892 No access
3. List of Village Names No access
4. List of Descent Groups No access
1. The Nagerkuts: In the Land of Gold and Apricots No access
2. Prologue and Introduction No access
3. Myths and Traditions: ċhóraa ċhor - ‘In Olden Times’ No access
4. Folklife in Nager: From Rituals to Foodways No access
5. Epilogue and Appendix No access
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 241
Photo Credits No access Pages 242 - 242