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Transregional Intoxications

Wine in Buddhist Gandhara and Kafiristan

Max Klimburg    Universität Wien, Österreich    

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The essay deals with the wine culture of the Hindu Kush area, which is believed to be among the oldest vinicultural regions of the world. Important traces and testimonies can be found in the Gandharan Buddhist stone reliefs of the Swat valley as well as in the wine culture of former Kafiristan, present-day Nuristan, in Afghanistan, which is still in many ways preserved among the Kalash Kafirs of Pakistan’s Chitral District. Kalash represent a very interesting case of ‘pagan’ cultural survival within the Islamic world.

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EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-101-0
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-100-3

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permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-100-3/011

Copyright: © 2016 Max Klimburg. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.