Hazaragi culture

Hazaragi culture or Hazara culture (Persian: فرهنگ هزارگی‎, Hazaragi: فرهنگ آزرگی‎) refers to the culture of the Hazara people, who live primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, the Balochistan province of Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world where the Hazara diaspora is settled as part of the wider Afghan diaspora.

Hazara girls wearing red traditional dress sitting next to Tajik and Pashtun girls in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
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The culture of the Hazara people is rich in heritage, with many unique customs and traditions, and shares influences with various Central Asian cultures.[1][2][3] The Hazarajat region has an ancient history and was, at different periods, home to the Greco-Buddhist,[4] Ghorids and Ghaznavids civilizations, later the Mongols and Timurid dynasties. Each of these civilizations left visible imprints on the region's local culture. According to genetic evidence, the ethnic group has "patrimonial relations" to Turkic peoples and the Mongols,[5][6] and at the same time is also related to neighboring Persianate peoples thus making them a distinct ethnic group.[7]

The Hazara native Hazaragi language is a variation of the Dari dialect of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. The Hazara were traditionally pastoral farmers active in herding in the central and southeastern highlands of Afghanistan. They primarily belong to the Shi'a denomination of Islam, following either the Twelver or Ismaili sects, with a small minority of Sunnis.[8]

Cuisine
Main article: Hazaragi cuisine

Music
Main articles: Music of Afghanistan and Music of Pakistan

Dambura
Main article: Dambura

Ghaychak
Main article: Ghaychak

Games

Sport
Main articles: Sport in Afghanistan and Sport in Pakistan

Buzkashi
Main article: Buzkashi
  • Hazaras council in Sept 2009, Daykundi.
  • Hazara girl in traditional Hazaragi Clothing.
  • Farmers in Bamyan.

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References
  1. Jochelson, Waldemar (1928) Peoples of Asiatic Russia American Museum of Natural History, New York, page 33, OCLC 187466893, also available in microfiche edition
  2. Schurmann, Franz (1962) The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, OCLC 401634
  3. Mousavi, Sayed Askar (1991) The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic, and Political Study, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, ISBN 0-312-17386-5
  4. Gandhara, Buddhism, About.
  5. Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Daniel L. Hartl, Elizabeth W. Jones, p. 309.
  6. Rosenberg, Noah A. et al. (December 2002) "Genetic Structure of Human Populations" Science (New Series) 298(5602): pp. 2381–85.
  7. L. Dupree, "Afghānistān: (iv.) ethnocgraphy", in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006, (LINK).
  8. Lansford, Tom (2003). A Bitter Harvest: Us Foreign Policy and Afghanistan. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-0754636151.
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