Ethnic Relations

On this page you can learn about ethnic relations and culture of the Afghan people which will add to your understanding of the characters in the book, The Kite Runner.

 

Free Internet Resources:

Human Rights Watch. Asia Division. "Afghanistan, the Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif." Human Rights Watch 10.7 (1998) Human Rights Watch. Accessed 29 June 2006 http://www.hrw.org/reports98/afghan/index.htm#TopOfPage

---. "Human Rights Watch: Asia: Afghanistan." hrw.org. May 4, 2006 2006. Human Rights Watch. June 15, 2006 http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=afghan

Ollapally, Deepa Mary.  Unfinished Business in Afghanistan: Warlordism, Reconstruction, and Ethnic Harmony.  Washington, DC : U.S. Institute of Peace, [2003].  GPO Access.  U.S. Government Printing Office.  Accessed 29 June 2006 http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/usip/www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr105.pdf

 

Periodical and Encyclopedia Articles:

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Bacon, Elizabeth. "An Inquiry into the History of the Hazara Mongols of Afghanistan." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 7 (1951): 230-47. Call number: GN1 .S72

Edwards, David B. "Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order." Cultural Anthropology 9.3, Further Inflections: Toward Ethnographies of the Future (1994): 345-60. JSTOR.  Syracuse University Library.  Accessed 29 June 2006

Ghani, Ashraf. "Pushtun." Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Philip Mattar. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004: 1857. 4 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale. Syracuse University Library. Accessed 29 June 2006 

Newell, Richard S. "Post-Soviet Afghanistan: The Position of the Minorities." Asian Survey 29.11 (1989): 1090-108. JSTOR. Syracuse University Library. Accessed 29 June 2006.

 

Books:

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Anderson, Ewan W., and Nancy Hatch Dupree. The Cultural Basis of Afghan Nationalism. London ; New York: Pinter Publishers, 1990. Call number: DS380.A35 C85 1990

Ferdinand, Klaus. Preliminary Notes on Hazÿra Culture (the Danish Scientific Mission to Afghanistan 1953-55). Vol. bd. 37, nr. 5. Kobenhavn: I kommission hos E. Munksgaard, 1959. Call number: GN548.F4

Jawad, Nassim. Afghanistan: A Nation of Minorities. London: Minority Rights Group, 1992. Call number: DS354.5 .J38 1992

Mousavi, Sayed Askar. The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.  Call number: DS354.6.H3 M68 1997