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BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Recent literature (from 2000)

 Barfield, T., 2004, Nomadic pastoralists in Afghanistan; Reconstruction of the pastoral economy. Boston University.

 Jost, C., 2004, Men, women, children and livestock; a livelihood analysis of the afghan Registan kuchi focused on gender and animal health. Tufts University / Cordaid, Afghanistan.

 VARA/Cordaid, 2003, An assessment of economic opportunities for Kuchi IDPs in Maywand and Panjway districts.

 Weijer, F. de, 2002, Pastoralist Vulnerability study, WFP Kabul.

 Weijer, F. de, 2004, Microfinance for Kuchi, Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan.

 Weijer, F. de, 2004, National Multi-sectoral Assessment on Kuchi, Ministry for Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Afghanistan.

  Older literature

Balland, D., Kieffer, C.M, 1976, Nomadisme Et Secheresss en Afghanistan; l’exemple des nomades Pashtun du Dast-e- Nawor,  Production pastorale et societe, Cambridge, p 75-92

 Balland, D., 1978, Contraintes Ecologiques et Fluctuations historiques dans l’organisation terriroriate des nomades d’ Afghanistan, Production pastoral en societe - 11; p 55-67.

 Balland, D., De Benoist, A., 1982 , Nomades Et-Semi- Nomades Baluc d’Afghanistan, Revue geographique de l’est, p 117-145.

 Balikci, A., 1990, Tenure and Transhumance: Stratification and Pastoralism, In: Galaty, J.G., Johnson, D.L, The world of Pastoralism; herding systems in comparative perspective, Guilford Press, p 301-322.

 Barfield, T., 1981, Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan, University of Texas press, Austin.

 Barfield, T., 1993, The Good Shepherds: Pastoral Tribes of Southwest Asia. The Nomadic Alternative, p 92-130

 Barker, T.J. et al, 1999, Activities of the Kuchi Survey Team, FAO working paper no. 1/99.

 Casimir M.J et al, 1980, Nomadism and remote sensing: animal husbandry and the sage brush community in a nomad winter area in western Afghanistan. Journal of arid environments - 3, p 231-254.

 Dupree, L., 1980, Afghanistan, 1980 edition, RAMA publishers, New Delhi.

 Denizot, F., Haider, H., De Planhol, X.,  1977, Peuplement et mise en valeur de la Vallee de Golak (Afghanistan central), Revue Geographique de l’est -1-2, p 53-71

 Glatzer, B., 1977, Nomaden von Gharjistan; Aspekte der wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Organisation nomadischer Durrani-Paschtunen in Nordwestafghanistan, Wiesbaden.

 Bernt Glatzer, 1981, Processes of Nomadization in West Afghanistan, In: Salzman, P.C. (ed), Contemporary Nomadic and Pastoral People: Asia and the North, College of Willam & Mary, Williamsburg, p 61-87

 Glatzer, B., Casimir, M.J., 1983, Herds and Households among Pashtun Pastoral Nomads: Limits of Growth, Ethnology, p 307-325

 Glatzer, B., 1992, Pastoral Territoriality in West Afghanistan: An Organization of Flexibility,  In: Casimir, M.J., Aparna Rao (eds), Mobility and Territoriality; Social and special boundaries among fishers, pastoralists and peripatetics, New York-Oxford, p 293-306.

 Glatzer, B., 1995, Marriage Prestations in Nomad-Farmer Relations in West Afghanistan, Essays on South Asian Society, Culture and Politics, p 7-20

 Glatzer, B., 1998, Is Afghanistan on the Brink of Ethnic and Tribal Disintegration. In: William Kaley (ed), Fundamentalism reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban, Hurst & Company, London, p167-181

 Glatzer, B., 1998, Being Pashtun – Being Muslim Concepts of Person and War in Afghanistan, Essays on the south Asian Society. Culture and Politics II, p 82-95

 Jentsch, C., 1973, Das Nomadentum in Afghanistan,  Afghanische Studien, Band 9, Verlag Anton Hain.

 Mousavi, 1998, The Hazaras of Afghanistan, Curzon press

 Mc Arthur, I.D., Et Al, 1979, Rangeland Livestock Production in Western Afghanistan, Journal of Arid environments-2, p 63-178

 Pedersen, G., 1994, Afghan Nomads in Transition, a century of change among the Zala Khan Khel. Carlsberg Foundation Nomad Research Project. Thames and Hudson, London.

 Salzman P.C., Processes of Sedentarization Among the Nomads of Baluchistan, In; When Nomad Settle- the nomads of Beluchistan, p 95-182.

 Stevens, I.M, Tarzi, K., 1964, Kochi Livestock Operations in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan, In: Economics of agricultural production in Helmand Valley, USAID, p 81-88.

 Tapper, 1977, N., Pashtun Nomad Women in Afghanistan, Asian Affairs, p 162-171.

 Tapper, N., 1991, Bartered brides; politics, gender and marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society, Cambridge.

 Tavakolian, B., 1984, Women and Socioeconomic Change among Sheikhanzai Nomads of Western Afghanistan. The Middle East Journal. Vol. 38.3, p 432-453