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Contents

List of Illustrations

Editors’ Foreword
William B. Trousdale and Mitchell Allen

Note on Translation and Transliteration
William B. Trousdale

About the Author
Babrak Amiri

About the Editors

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. History of Sistan
Chapter 2. Geography of the Helmand Basin
Chapter 3. Agricultural and Pastoral Production
Chapter 4.
Crafts, Trade, and Travel
Chapter 5. Labor and Family Relationships
Chapter 6. Education, Health, Religion, and Cultural Norms

Conclusions

Afterword: The Helmand Baluch and Native Ethnography
Mitchell Allen

Appendix A: Tribes of the Lower Helmand Valley
Appendix B: Climate Data from Zaranj and Deshu Meteorological Station
Appendix C: Monthly Water Flows at Charburjak Station

Glossary
References
Index

The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Ghulam Rahman Amiri
Foreword by William B. Trousdale and Mitchell Allen
Afterword by Mitchell Allen

264 pages, 83 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-042-7 Hb Published (November 2020)

eISBN 978-1-80073-043-4 eBook