Pakistan: Take Care Of The Poets! Verbal Art Performances As Key Factors In The Preservation Of ...

Pakistan: Take Care Of The Poets! Verbal Art Performances As Key Factors In The Preservation Of Kalasha Language And Culture Pierpaolo Di Carlo, 2010   Unlike all the neighboring societies within the Hindu Kush region, the Kalasha still practice a pre-Islamic religion of Vedic origin. The process of culture maintenance finds in the ancestral language an irreplaceable symbolic resource for identity purposes. This, in turn, determines that those Kalasha who convert to Islam are inclined to...

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