Talk Till The Minutes Run Out
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"Every day we encounter employees of gas stations, donut and fried chicken shops, convenience stores and driving companies. Often on their phone. Ever wonder what they talk about? Meet the illegal immigrant who works 12-hour shifts behind a convenience store counter seven days a week for cash. Enter the mind and soul of a man who, on the phone while handling customers, orchestrates his family as clan elder back in his village in the northern mountains of Pakistan. Witness American inner-city culture as he sees it and reports it back home. Experience the downfall of a victim of the great immigrant dream: making money in America to send home and then returning to retire rich in his homeland ...Click Here to Continue
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Secrets from the Field : An Ethnographer's Notes from North Western Pakistan
AuthorHouse 2004 |
The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women: "The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me"
University of Texas Press 1992 |
Expedition Volume 44 Number 3 pp 34-39
Women, Culture, and Health in rural Afghantistan
Story and Photographs By Benedicte Grima
Women, Culture, and Health in rural Afghantistan
Story and Photographs By Benedicte Grima
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"For years women in tribal and rural Afghanistan have received minimal medical attention. The reasons extend far beyond the war against the Soviets in the 1980s or the Taliban rule in the 1990s. Men’s attitudes toward women’s health and women’s own concepts of health as interpreted by Islamic law and practice, combined with the fact that medical assistance occurs outside the walls of the very private household, contribute to a situation where women suffer and die patiently at home.
For Full Article: https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/women-culture-and-health-in-rural-afghanistan/ |
The Pakistan Forum February 23, 2011
Remembering Swat Valley's MADYAN
By Benedicte Santry Grima
“Do you remember Madyan, the village in Swat with the great market and restaurants? It’s gone, completely washed away.” These words echoed through the community of Pashtun immigrants in late August 2010, after flash floods ravaged the Swat Valley in Pakistan‘s North West Frontier Province, and worked their way down the Indus River through Punjab and Sind. Throughout the valley, fields and crops were destroyed, villages were annihilated, and bridges connecting valley markets to mountain hamlets were washed away.
It was Ramadan, one of the...
For Full Article:
http://thepakistanforum.net/2011/02/remembering-swat-valleys-madyan/
Remembering Swat Valley's MADYAN
By Benedicte Santry Grima
“Do you remember Madyan, the village in Swat with the great market and restaurants? It’s gone, completely washed away.” These words echoed through the community of Pashtun immigrants in late August 2010, after flash floods ravaged the Swat Valley in Pakistan‘s North West Frontier Province, and worked their way down the Indus River through Punjab and Sind. Throughout the valley, fields and crops were destroyed, villages were annihilated, and bridges connecting valley markets to mountain hamlets were washed away.
It was Ramadan, one of the...
For Full Article:
http://thepakistanforum.net/2011/02/remembering-swat-valleys-madyan/
Asian Folklore Studies Vol 44-2 pp 241-267
The Pukhtun Tapos: From Biography to Autobiography
By Benedicte Grima University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Pukhtun Tapos: From Biography to Autobiography
By Benedicte Grima University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Introduction: Doing Pukhto and Speaking Pukhto
Pukhto, or Pashto, is an Indo-European language of the Oriental branch, spoken by the Pukhtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and divided into a multitude of dialects differing drastically in lexicon, morphology, and phonology. But beyond the linguistic isoglosses, some more recent sociological factors also contribute to the most dramatic divisions among Pukhtuns; namely, ethnic, national, and tribal identity ... For Full Article: http://asianethnology.org/downloads/ae/pdf/a537.pdf |
Women's Studies Int. Forum. Volume 9. Number 3. pp235-242
Suffering as esthetic and ethic among Pashtun Women
Benedicte Grima Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
Suffering as esthetic and ethic among Pashtun Women
Benedicte Grima Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
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Along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. in the Pashtun society. pain and suffering are an emic criterion of honor among women. This aesthetic ethic is expressed
outwardly in statements and narratives by women in everyday life. but especially when their sons or husbands die. get ill or are the victims of accidents. On these occasions. related and non-related women are under obligation to visit the mother (or wife) and bring condolence. The woman entertains her female guests with a performed detailed narrative account of the … For Full Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277539586900580
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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asain Expressive Traditions
Chapter 3 "The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto"
By Benedict Grima
Chapter 3 "The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto"
By Benedict Grima
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Grima, Benedicte, "The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto" in Appadurai, A., Korom, F. and Mills, M. (Eds.), Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (pp78-101). Philladelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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