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Published as a companion to and augmentation of the bibliographical work in Professor Jettmar's The Religions of the Hindukush (Orchid Press 2022) the present volume documents some 1200 additional references, both earlier works omitted in Jettmar's original bibliography and a large volume of subsequent publications on various aspects of Peristan studies, up to 2022. Thus, Cultures of the Hindukush after Jettmar provides the scholar with an indispensable resource to follow on from Jettmar, and to bring him/her to the present state of research in the field. Further, the bibliography expands on Jettmar's work to provide guidance in a broad spectrum of Peristan studies, including archaeology, ethnology, geography, genetics and physical anthropology, history, linguistics and bibliography. An essential resource for all with interest in this field.

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Alberto M. Cacopardo was born in Palermo, Sicily in 1952. Since 1973 he has been studying the Kalasha people of North-West Pakistan and the other communities of that area. Apart from his anthropological work, he has published scientific studies on such disparate subjects as electoral systems engineering, the future of manual labour and contemporary American literature. He is a full member of IsIAO, the most prominent Italian academy for Oriental research. He teaches Law and Economics at Liceo Scientifico Statale of Borgo San Lorenzo and anthropology at the University of Florence. Irmtraud Stellrecht, born 1943 in Heidenheim an der Brenz, is a German ethnologist. She received her doctorate in 1972. In 1978 and 1980 she carried out her own field research in northern Pakistan in the areas of Gilgit and Hunza. In 1987 she accepted a professorship at the University of Cologne and since 1991 she has been a professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Her research focus is the ethnology of northern Pakistan.

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