The Pashtun Code of Honour.

Autor: Shah Khattak, Raj Wali, Mohammad, Fida, Lee, Richard
Zdroj: Central Asia (1729-9802); Winter2009, Issue 65, p1-1, 1p
Abstrakt: This article gives details of the cultural values of the Pakhtun people of Central Asia, especially insofar as gives those of values related to this culture's code of honour influences interpersonal and intercultural behaviours. By drawing extensively upon oral traditions, prose and poetic writings, the authors establish the engines of belief that power social action for this too-little understood culture at a time when such understanding is crucial to Western-and particularly American's involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries in this turbulent part of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index