Burusho : AV07.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2009-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=AV07
Subjects

Included WorkClark, John, 1909-1967. Hunza in the Himalayas.
Included WorkFrembgen, Jürgen Wasim Historical rivalry and religious boundaries in the Karakorum.
Included WorkLorimer, D. L. R. Burushaski language. V. 2, Texts and translations.
Included WorkLorimer, D. L. R. Burushaski language. V. 1, Introduction and grammar.
Included WorkLorimer, E. O. (Emily Overend) Burusho of Hunza.
Included WorkLorimer, E. O. (Emily Overend) Language hunting in the Karakoram.
Included WorkPage, Hugh R., Jr. Culture summary, Burusho.
Included WorkSidky, M. H. Subsistence, ecology, and social organisation among the Hunzakut.
Included WorkTobe, John H. Hunza.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Hunza in the Himalayas / John Clark -- Historical rivalry and religious boundaries in the Karakorum / Jürgen W. Frembgen -- Burushaski language, texts and translations / D. L. R. Lorimer -- Burushaski language, introduction and grammar / D. L. R. Lorimer ; with preface by Georg Morgenstierne -- Burusho of Hunza ; Language hunting in the Karakoram / Emily Overend Lorimer -- Culture summary, Burusho / Hugh R. Page and Teferi Abate Adem -- Subsistence, ecology, and social organisation among the Hunzakut, a high-mountain people in the Karakorams / M. H. Sidky -- Hunza, adventures in a land of paradise / John H. Tobe.
Abstract This collection consists of 9 documents about the Burusho, a mountain people living primarily in the Hunza valley, but also in the Nagar and Yasin areas, and in the Gilgit district of the northern areas of Pakistan. All are in English except Lorimer, which provides both the original text in Burushaski and its translation into English. Four documents by David L. Lorimer, a British political agent who lived in Hunza from 1920 to 1924, and his wife, Emily O. Lorimer, focus on folklore, local traditions and linguistic issues. John Tobe's work tries to correct popular western views which wrongly regarded Hunza as a paradise where people live extraordinarily long healthy lifes. John Clark compliments Tobe's work by listing the many cases of disease which he encountered while maintaining a general dispensary in the area in 1948-1951. The remaining two documents discuss economy, ecology and social organization.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Mar. 27, 2010).
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