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I Kalasha del Hindu Kush: ricerche linguistiche e antropologiche

  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo,

The Kalush are the last Kafirs (pagans) of Hindu Kush and speak an Indo-European language, which makes them a particularly precious resource for the Indo-European scholar. This thesis offers an in-depth study of their language and of some aspects of their culture. Starting from the data collected during a field study in the least well-known of the three Kalasha valleys, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the author proposes a contrastive analysis of the everyday language and that used for poetry. This analysis, and the mass of ethnographic data considered, enable the author to identify the socio-cultural reasons behind certain linguistic choices that can be observed in the poetic discourse, thus bringing to light the essence of the relations between language and culture.

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Pierpaolo Di Carlo

University at Buffalo, United States - ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-6745

Pierpaolo Di Carlo has a degree in paleoethnologyand is interested in the dialogue between Linguistics, Archaeology and Ethnography. He has a number of publications to his credit, even international. He is currently working at the University at Buffalo (USA) on Western Beboid languages (Cameroon).
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Book Title

I Kalasha del Hindu Kush: ricerche linguistiche e antropologiche

Authors

Pierpaolo Di Carlo

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

370

Publication Year

2010

Copyright Information

© 2010 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY-ND 3.0 IT

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-8453-757-7

ISBN Print

978-88-8453-861-1

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978-88-8453-757-7

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978-88-9273-691-7

Series Title

Premio Tesi di Dottorato

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2612-8039

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2612-8020

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