An ethnographic investigation of swara among the Pashtun people of Jalalabad, Afghanistan: exploring swara as a conflict settlement mechanism from the perspective of men

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dc.contributor.authorKhan, Masood
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeFournier, Anna (Anthropology) Flaherty, Maureen (Peace and Conflict Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorJudd, Ellen (Anthropology)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-15T19:57:33Z
dc.date.available2016-04-15T19:57:33Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents an ethnographic analysis of the practice of swara marriage among the Pashtun people of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, based on nine weeks of fieldwork in 2015. Swara is a form of compensation marriage practiced by Pashtun people in Pakistan and Afghanistan through which disputes between men are resolved through the giving away in marriage of girls, often minors, by guilty parties to victim parties. By employing practice theory and the theory of sacrifice, swara marriages are analyzed through the conceptualizations of honor, revenge, and ghairat (“bravery”). Focusing on six swara cases, the first half of the thesis explores the concepts of honor, revenge, and ghairat during the time of feuds. The second half of the thesis directly focuses on swara marriages and analyzes them through the concepts of symbolic capital and sacrifice.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2016en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31235
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectFeudsen_US
dc.subjectPashtun peopleen_US
dc.subjectAfghanistanen_US
dc.subjectSwara marriagesen_US
dc.titleAn ethnographic investigation of swara among the Pashtun people of Jalalabad, Afghanistan: exploring swara as a conflict settlement mechanism from the perspective of menen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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