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Afghanistan, the people /

By: Banting, Erinn.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Lands, peoples, and cultures series: Publisher: New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., c2003Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0778793362 (RLB : alk. paper); 077879704X (PB : alk. paper); 9780778797043; 9780778793366.Other title: Afghanistan.Subject(s): Ethnology -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature | Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 958.1
Contents:
Strong people -- Early history -- Arrival of Islam -- Road to independence -- Ongoing struggle -- Pashtuns -- Additional inhabitants -- Nomadic and village lifestyles -- Family celebrations -- Women in Afghanistan -- Traditional clothing -- Come share a meal -- Off to school.
Summary: Explores how the history, climate, geography, ethnology, wars, and religion of Afghanistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life in the mountains, deserts, and cities.
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"A Bobbie Kalman book."

Includes index.

Strong people -- Early history -- Arrival of Islam -- Road to independence -- Ongoing struggle -- Pashtuns -- Additional inhabitants -- Nomadic and village lifestyles -- Family celebrations -- Women in Afghanistan -- Traditional clothing -- Come share a meal -- Off to school.

Explores how the history, climate, geography, ethnology, wars, and religion of Afghanistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life in the mountains, deserts, and cities.

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