{"title":"Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks","authors":"Mateusz M. P. Kłagisz, M. Drozdowska","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02701003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n The article discusses two basic socio-cultural and socio-political concepts of ‘homeland’ and ‘nation’ as they are presented in Pashto-language schoolbooks printed in 2009 and in 2012. To complete the discussion some examples found in the Dari-language 1960s schoolbooks have been added as well. The analysis shows intertextual relations at both the language and meaning level that create the key message of school textbooks, i.e., the pyramid of values: home/family → homeland/nation → national pride, aimed at raising national awareness among today’s Afghans.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iran and the Caucasus","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02701003","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The article discusses two basic socio-cultural and socio-political concepts of ‘homeland’ and ‘nation’ as they are presented in Pashto-language schoolbooks printed in 2009 and in 2012. To complete the discussion some examples found in the Dari-language 1960s schoolbooks have been added as well. The analysis shows intertextual relations at both the language and meaning level that create the key message of school textbooks, i.e., the pyramid of values: home/family → homeland/nation → national pride, aimed at raising national awareness among today’s Afghans.
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Iran and the Caucasus, as of volume 6 published by Brill, is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal and appears in two issues per year. Iran and the Caucasas is a journal promoting original, innovative, and meticulous research on the anthropology, archaeology, culture, economics, folklore, history (ancient, mediaeval and modern), linguistics, literature (textology), philology, politics, and social sciences of the region. Accepting articles in English, French, and German, Iran and the Caucasus publishes lengthy monographic essays on path-breaking research, synoptic essays that inform about the field and region, as well as book reviews that highlight and analyse important new publications.