Class. Who knew of western pakistan close to the Afghan Border the people are struggling to preserve their sentries own culture. They inhabited large portions of the hindu kush deep into todays afghanistan. To bury their own around 4000 come ashore have to live with 3 picturesque valleys in the pakistani province of harbor apart from kuala. Lumpur facing an uncertain future. In predominantly muslim pakistan the survival of their traditions herds in the balance. Until recently the valleys where the kalash live were so inaccessible but they were effectively cut off from the outside world. Now a bumpy dirt road brings vehicles here. For centuries the remote location of the bomb red rubber barrier valleys preserve the local kalash from the fates suffered by other members of their faith. Through the hindu kush region the collapse have been persecuted as infidels killed or forced to convert to islam. Today they are under the protection of the state as pakistans smallest ethnic religious minority they can practice their faith and traditions freely. Unlike the monotheistic muslims surrounding them the kalash adhere to ancient indoeuropean polytheistic beliefs in harmony with nature. According to some legends they are descended from greek soldiers from the army of alexander the greats. Life in the valleys has changed greatly in recent years the kalash are no longer isolated. And now they face the question of how to preserve their culture in a time of radical upheaval. The new connection to the outside world has not only enabled islam to move into the valleys modern civilization is also encroaching on the villages the streets are filled with commercial activity. Television the internet and smartphones are widespread evidence of how the original way of life is gradually changing. But the state run girl school and over at 17 year old persecuted is about to graduate and she is facing big challenges. She wants to study at a college for which she will have to leave her native village yet. Islamic instruction is mandatory in all Public Schools in pakistan. The kalash students also have to take part. But in my did it was it is a myth that it is nearly. As it is a myth that it the way i love what i did with. The path the Higher Education of variably passes through the Public Schools attending them offers People Better job prospects and a way out of poverty. But they always feel the subtle pressure to conform to them was which already. Then yeah. Oh god what if they gave. Persecute his house its time to prepare the evening meal. The cutting is done in the traditional way. Every meal is accompanied by flat bread made from corn or wheat both are grown in the valley. Prosecutors mother doesnt need electricity to cook. But her brother does to watch television. You. Know that well. I have. One like that you. Are. In. For a long time the kalash here were selfsufficient even today most of their food comes fertile valley. Alongside grain the farmers here grow many kinds of fruits and vegetables. In the evening the whole family gathers for dinner the end. Of the prosecution or siblings have spent the day in school the parents worked in the field and took care of the family business. Like. The flat bread and bins and a variable part of daily life just like the pakistani gar worn by the man the shell of archimedes and the round will end up the call. The women still wear brilliantly embroidered dresses and the course recent headdress. That is a big contrast to the clothes worn by muslim women. The animistic beliefs of the kalash are not part of an organized religion. Their faith is neither books nor buildings without holy scriptures mosques churches or temples the kalash are guided by the signs and rhythms of nature. 3rd most important goal is to live in harmony with their environment. One woman who has managed to hold on to her calash culture and complete studies at university is syud goal. The archaeologist not a gates between 2 worlds that of the calash and was society. She researches her own culture and hopes to raise Public Awareness about it. She sees that as an important step in both during the rights of the kalash. But the developments above breath have also left their mark and so i have goals own family. Her younger sister maya recently converted to islam you know. So far she is the only muslim among the 7 children. So i had good things her sister decided to convert out because she was in love with a muslim. There you know why it was marriage would only be possible after conversion. That was it well enough. But it. Did 20 year old maya one talk with her family about her reasons. Its a tough situation for all of them. To be there which gives a little. Mother who dont live. Here get up and work with our parents were very alarmed when she converted but she can be a good person as a muslim too so its all right its her decision the most important thing is that shes a good person. Just right. But when i dress as a muslim. On pitch i miss colors things just like the way my family. I think would go on wearing it but i dont with the muslim name us. Looking at the problem isnt the religion but the people if you convert to islam and keep on wearing colored clothing people might think that youre not committed to islam or have even abandoned it. Among and that could antagonize religious extremists but again youre the market that shed only been going. Through thought there. Was another. How do you feel about your daughter converting to islam. That you know where you got out of here with the guy is that i was and i just i have to accept it. Shes my daughter she said peik ip shes still a good person and thats about it masses of the libretto is what you need to enjoy im here during ramadan i tried to relieve her of her trolls but she still always wanted to help me in kick what he said was i want whats best for her with him shes my daughter. Kind of obama when he says im just like you know. Sister naomi im good my sister is disappointed in me shes more than my big sister. Shes also like a mother and father for me. Shes done so much for. Oh i tell. Her. That when taking. The kalash of Durham Museum and bone barrette was founded with the help of a greek and you know alongside the exhibition rooms it houses a library and a Primary School for kalash children science go comes here often. Just that has a budget but our population isnt growing like it should be for many people talk about forced conversion. But this pressure isnt so easy to define. So what kind of pressure is it to take me it happens in an interactive way. On the one hand there are many of us. And our children are influenced in school was to subordinate their dad i states that. The things they learn to push them further away from our culture was at home copying his stand up if i dont. Like my you more and more young kalash are converting to islam. That is where the numbers have been continuously dwindling. From 3000295238 extension 00 today. Class women are allowed to choose their husbands. To divorce them. But if they marry a muslim and convert to islam to do so they are bound to the new faith. Conversion to islam is a step that cant be reversed. In this way a personal choice can affect the entire society. In the few kalash who remain bear the responsibility of preserving the culture. The weather in the valley is ideal for hair washing the river. Using what nature has given. The striking braided hair styles of being worn by collage women for centuries. Colorful hyundais be the neck laces also have a long tradition they weigh up to several kilograms and are worn by women of all ages the number of chains increases as a woman grows older. Early summers mood retirement bomb rats the sweet foods ripen almost off once. Everyone pitches in to harvest them and dry and store them for the winter to come. Or at least the ones the cows leave behind. My. Name now. For the kalash it is normal to view animals not as property but as partners. Persecutors mother uses the fresh milk to make cheese burger and i like that in gather that from now on. The. Residents here in the longer have to cultivate and make everything themselves nowadays there are small shops. The roads may be bad but they enable traders to come here to sell their goods. That. Modern life is entering the sleepy valleys. The rapidly growing tourism is bringing many changes for the clash. But its also opening up new business opportunities. Persecutors father phasey can has gone into the terrorism business. Hes turned his home into a hotel. But. You. Get you get told for that we run the hotel as a family. In new york is going on that earns us some money to pay for our childrens Education Building that is that you can go in that indeed need money while there are many other opportunities here theres ups. A little before you theres no industry in the valley meaning no jobs in the world must be the tourists only come during 2 or 3 months of the year just to keep. Their little or no one comes in the winter time stores of the day but tourism at least gives us a small income which commodity. Persecute her and her mother also profit from not. Put up but delivering the good deed i did like the tourists they come here in the Summer Holidays for out the rest of us we dont have walls of fences around our houses. A. Little way up the river life still seems normal im going to stir my turds. Lives here with her family. The 14 year old student faces the same questions most young kalash do sure to follow in the mothers footsteps and care for the family the household and the fields. Or should she leave the valley and go out into the world. This is the family farm children from the neighborhood gather here. I only hear. Them. On my. Father shire alem is a teacher instructs the children in a spare time. When in the. Morning when you. Patiently teaches them reading writing under english. You do more than you do more than they dont need blackboards or notebooks. Purples will also do the trick. Kalash a language spoken here belongs to the dark languages its writing uses latin characters it is spoken exclusively in the 3 kalash valleys of the Chitral District. That hears him kalash culture and language around the curriculum of the state funded Primary School. But only a few places are available the other children have to attend the public Islamic Schools here i. Did my build up nothing much as your. Average knowledge occasional yeah i should be. Lively with a couple yes a little man. You have to roll your tongue here was. More. Rare. Her. Feet her. Eyes. And yet im. So happy. The arm was nice cars. Cars. That get us closer and. Closer. To me than at least the last was. In contrast to the Islamic Schools the kalash classes are mixed gender the boys and girls learn together. After graduating from Primary School all the children move on to the public secondary schools have separate classes for boys and girls and follow the islamic curriculum. Busson if your peers and it is an education is so important. If the children want to get an education they have to go to other towns. There they will come into contact with other cultures and they may adapt to them. But the culture doesnt die out it improves and it changes through contact with the outside world. If someone wear shorts for instance the other children might find that practical and start wearing shorts too we were family. Changes will come. If we have education it improves our culture to. Make our children learn that they have a choice of getting education shows them the way it is the light. Goes in on their sister headed to the pub or at a high school. Goes in are in the 8th grade there she takes along her as lama child or to put on in the classroom wearing the child or is that mandatory for kalash girls but in the predominately Muslim School environment most of them feel more comfortable that it. Was. Gods in our takes or attendance at the Islamic School in stride she knows that attending Public School is the only way she can get an education she knows that the school is financed by the islamic state. Pounds. A. Week. That. Goes in a dozen question the Islamic Educational system she hopes the benefit from it as much as possible. Her proud supporter in that they see a good education as the basis of a life with prospects for the future. While she was working in the field goals in our started menstruating that means she cant go back to the village and her parents home for several days. A mother gets her clothes ready and prepares lunch before goes in our makes her way to push alley. Additionally is a communal menstrual house because ash women spend their periods and have their babies. Westerners often viewed as cause them as a form of ostracism and discrimination. But within the kalash value system it is a holy place. The challis enjoys a very high status. By. The kalash divide the world into the categories on gesture and prototype and just to mean Something Like high or pure profits can be translated as low or impure but these are not value judgments as they might be in other religions for example the fields are denoted pregnant or impure yet they are the source of life and thus have the highest value for the kalash women are also products but at the same time are seen as the source of creation. The hilo journalism serves as orientation for the kalash a way of organizing everyday life. It was thought of the vision its a good and bad. Form vocal it will not give anything. Done. Here. But will figure out. How. To get. On our way through the shallow he goes you know its not allowed to cross the upper part of the village. To a therapist surely is long and hard. And. She makes a detour around the village keeping as far from other people as possible. With a wiser could bring his fortune. There are few records on the origins of the value of kalash culture. Clash people have no history books or written traditions all of the cultural knowledge is passed on. Orally from generation to generation. In a country like pakistan the relative gender equality in kalash a society is something special. Women are highly regarded. Lotion that they could bring misfortune during their menstrual period is in fact protective they are left in peace during this time they dont have to care for their families they cant have sex nor can they carry out hard manual labor. The shirley is the place where everyone here was born so its no wonder that the kalash lovingly refer to it as the source of creation. And my view. Goes you know is a new comer in the pasha lee the women can choose between 2 communal rooms with 6 or 7 beds each. Official is always outside the village but as one of the most important places for village so i think for the crucial it is a refuge and a sacred spot. All kalash women spend their menstrual periods in the bush early pregnant women come here to give birth and remain in the shyly for around 30 days after their babies are born. They often have their Young Children with the boys and girls. The time of the bashar is the time to recuperate and gives them a time out from daily life every month however they cannot attend festivals or go to school. They dont have to cook for themselves their families bring their meals and leave them in front of the challis. Many of the women spend their time doing handicrafts but girls you know finds the air force time out quite a challenge getting bored so boring here. And i dont like feeling bored. But its the rule so i have to come here. And no one is liam riding. I like playing football and telling. Me to be lies man i love the color of our clothing our festivals everything thats what the sand. You does maybe rides i would like to go to college in chitral. Because when i lived there i wont have to go to the challis when i have my period. Lots of girls go there to study but i know i wont like it because i love the colors people so much. Love. Whether its a womans menstrual cycle the seasons of the year or a sudden weather change for centuries kalash have organized our lives and the rituals in accordance with the laws of nature. How much of that will the Younger Generation carry on in the future. A group of women have also gathered and goes in as has a mother dr go her friends over for afternoon tea. Boy shot here by said they have the biden. Family should think about what the bus sharlee means to us women. What does this tradition mean that my senior decides out of the money. There that youre missing. A few days of rest before you go back home. To. Even the older women who no longer go to the bush early we talk regularly the conversations range from reflections on culture to everyday topics what are the children doing whats cooking and who brought which both goods. And. Every. One of them. Most of the older women consider the bush charlie an asset a valuable part of the culture. A place that dignifies want to. Make out like. The shirley can also be seen as a form of oppression. The obligatory stay there also denies menstruating women a role in the normal life of the community. Should trump is the closest city to the breaths can be reached in 2 and a half hours the capital of Chitral District offers its 45000. 00 residents plenty of activities. Says 2017 it is also how the university persecuted a mother visiting her sister sophia. Many young kalash come here to study. Like. This the editors. Living. All day and i can make it. The new university is seen as a driver of Economic Growth in the region and the wave lifting people out of poverty. Only to communities that says listen listen listen listen to let me let me get political known cure to let me take now this risk to lessen it all finished the. Limits and say. You. Think it will. Only get me and it isnt your decision to fight loosely ill do it realistic couldnt do anything to me says the 1st message youre looking at it doesnt look over the area that were facing a plan because they just let them have little bit until. Ill be a kid. And stuff but so. Little for. The love of them for. With departments including Political Science i. T. N. Economics the university is open to both men and women. But in the small cafeteria there is strict gender segregation. Was. A new world awaits persecutor a world full of technology and new regulations but also full of knowledge. That. I just cant think. Of. Oh. This is. What impact will the new world have on kalash culture. That so many women are wearing the child or. The child or is not a part of College Culture about a puppy any of the but the macabre betting at the opera but what will remain of our culture when women veil themselves. Is that the men have long been dressing like the muslims do so its the women who keep our culture alive. I have a very good about them and to have to thank you. Oh right hello right out. There. Was one of the. Cars that i just wonder if you know. After the short visit in her home village is returning to her work at the university. It. Goes in i can leave the pasha lee after 5 days shes glad to be going back to her home and to School Finally back to normal life. This time she doesnt have to avoid people she can take the direct way home straight through the village and across the main bridge. Will the kalash women continue to take this way through their untouched valley in the future. Or will Company Grounds and Hotels Spring up on the banks of the river. Will come or will interests intrude on the kalash on her feels. The same time the interest tourists are taking in this remote region is also an opportunity. To come here to experience a unique culture perhaps that will give it a chance of survival. Once shes back home its as if it was never away now she has the rush to get to school on time just as the parents expect her to. Kind of throws her. Plan. Well like. Many young kalash love the freedom their small world offers them they are determined to preserve their culture. But they also know that they must not miss the boat when it comes to progress and that they will have to prepare for drastic changes. The question is not whether kalash culture will change it will in any case. The question is far more how it will change. The. Kick off special. 6 times undefeated european champions World Championships and the olympic victory. The National Soccer team but also the soft. Untold story germanys womens football was so successful. Because. 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