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20181126145332.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS354.6. |
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K3. |
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R634 1896 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Robertson, George Scott, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1852-1916. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Sir George Scott Robertson ; illustrated by A. D. Mccormick. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1896. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 658 pages : |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
30 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
“The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush”—title page. |
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| General note |
“Kafiristan, or “The Land of the Infidels,” was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush is a detailed ethnographic account of the Kafirs, written by George Scott Robertson (1852‒1916), a British administrator in India. With the approval of the government of India, Robertson made a preliminary visit to Kafiristan in October 1889, and then lived among the Kafirs for almost a year, from October 1890 to September 1891. Robertson describes his journey from Chitral (in present-day Pakistan) to Kafiristan and the difficulties he encountered in traveling about the country and in gaining information about the Kafir culture and religion. The latter, he writes, “is a somewhat low form of idolatry, with an admixture of ancestor-worship and some traces of fire-worship also. The gods and goddesses are numerous, and of varying degrees of importance or popularity.” Robertson describes religious practices and ceremonies, the tribal and clan structure of Kafir society, the role of slavery, the different villages in the region, and everyday life and social customs, including dress, diet, festivals, sport, the role of women in society, and much else that he observed first-hand. The book is illustrated with drawings, and it concludes with a large fold-out topographical map, which shows the author’s route in Kafiristan. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880−1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the “Land of Light,” a reference to the enlightenment brought by Islam”—copied from website. |
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The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nuristani (Asian people). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nuristan (Afghanistan : Region) – Description and travel. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Electronic format type |
PDF |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds354_6_k3_r634_1896">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds354_6_k3_r634_1896</a> |
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Scanned for ACKU. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
azu_acku_ds354_6_k3_r634_1896 |