Death enmity in Thull
Organized vengeance and social change in a Kohistani community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2465904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Lincoln Keiser, Reinhard Keiser (Wesleyan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 489-505 |
| Publication date | 1986-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1986.13.3.02a00060 |
| OpenAlex | W2097008504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
Anthropologists often view institutionalized vengeance from a synchronic perspective, asking what is the function of blood feuds in maintaining order, strengthening group cohesion, balancing population, and protecting against external political threats. Such a perspective has limited usefulness in understanding blood feuds in Thull, a community in the Hindu-Kush mountains where organized revenge is a recent development. In such communities institutionalized vengeance can best be understood in the context of sociocultural systems in the process of historical transformation
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 1970 - 1998 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |