Matthias Weinreich

»We Are Here to Stay«
Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
Matthias Weinreich
Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Band 285
Klaus Schwarz Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
2. verbess. Auflage (2010)
Paperback, zahlr. Abb., 120 Seiten
ISBN 9783879973569
Verfügbarkeit: sofort lieferbar
31.50 €

2nd revised edition
…this book succeeds perfectly in reconstructing Pashtun migrants’ journeys and settlements in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. But it also offers the reader a vivid and realistic picture of Pashtun life, usages and traditions… (Matteo De Chiara)
Drawing primarily on oral sources from the author's own research carried out between 1993 and 1997, this book outlines the settlement history of Pashto speakers in Pakistan's Northern Areas over the last 150 years, concentrating on the decades following the opening of the Karakorum Highway in 1978. Besides this, it looks at how the migrants' language situation had developed by the mid 1990s. It investigates how Pashto speakers communicated with each other and with members of their respective Shina-, Khowar-, Balti- and Burushaski-speaking host communities, focussing in particular on cross-dialectal communication and language shift. The book also aims to define how the trends related to Pashtun migration to the Northern Areas in the mid 1990s could develop in the near future. Interwoven with this analysis are childhood memories and life stories recounted by the Pashto speakers interviewed by the author. All interviewees were ordinary people leading ordinary lives - traders, cobblers, tea boys, farmers and porters. Their stories provide a voice to the Pashto speaking migrants themselves and give the reader a fascinating insight into their lives. Book-reviews (Cambridge Journal): http://goo.gl/LyJyb
»Weinreich needs to be congratulated in producing a picture of an area that is both remote and dangerous and of a people who are now attracting wider attention.« [J. of the Royal Asiatic Society (2009) 3rd Series, 19, pp 405 f.]
»Weinreich addresses in his study a long neglected and understudied phenomenon. He sheds light on the language environment of migrants who moved from the South into the bazaar towns and rural settlements of Northern Pakistan.« [Erdkunde, Vol. 63 (4), p 389, pdf] http://klaus-schwarz-verlag.com/manu/Weinreich_EK63_review.pdf
»He paves the transition from past to present by explaining the geography and demography of the Northern Areas in a concise manner, and precisely brings to the reader the linguistic, ethnic, social, religious and sectarian contours of the Northern Areas.« (Asma Shakir Khawaja and Shafqat Saeed; Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 108 - 2013)

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