How Long to Read The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan

How Long Does it Take to Read The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan by M. Nazif Shahrani

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, and the People�s Republic of China. The new Preface challenges the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is religious. Shahrani asserts that the problem of terrorism is fundamentally political and is historically linked to the inappropriate model of the centralized nation-state introduced to Afghanistan by colonial regimes. The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue. Shahrani has closely followed the flight of the Kirghiz to Pakistan in 1978 and their eventual resettlement among resentful Kurdish villagers in eastern Turkey in 1982. The ethnographic documentation and analysis of the transformation of Kirghiz society, politics, economics, and demography since their exodus from the Pamirs offers valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities.

How long is The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan?

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan by M. Nazif Shahrani is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan aloud.

What Reading Level is The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan?

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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