Northwestern pakistan close to the Afghan Border the people are struggling to preserve their centuries old culture. Rooms they inhabited large portions of the hindu kush deep into todays afghanistan. Today there are only around 4000 commercial left to live with 3 picturesque valleys in the pakistani province of harbor apart from quad. Because sure 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 that they were effectively cut off from the outside world now a bumpy dirt road brings vehicles here. For centuries the remote location of the bomber at romber and barrier valleys preserve the local kalash from the fates suffered by other members of their faith. Through the hindu kush region the collapse of being persecuted as infidels killed or forced to convert to islam. Today they are under the protection of the state as pakistan 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 is changed greatly in recent years the kalash are no longer isolated. And now they face the question of how to preserve their culture their 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 girls school and barber at 17 year old persecutor is about to graduate and shes facing big challenges. She wants to study at a college for which she will have to leave her native village. Yes. 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. Was it is a myth that it the way i left what i did. 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 majority. Then yeah. Oh god what if they gave. Persecute his house its time to prepare the evening meal. Because he has 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 why. Im here. When i was on. Fire. For a long time the kalash here were selfsufficient even today most of their food the fertile valley. Alongside grain the farmers here grow many kinds of fruits and vegetables. In the evening the whole family gathers for dinner. Prosecute loner siblings have spent the day in school the parents worked in the field and took care of the family business. The flat bread and beings and very little part of daily life just like the pakistani gar worn by the man the shell of our communities and the round woman cup the park all. The women still wear brilliantly embroidered dresses and the course rhesus sort of head dress. 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. Their 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 as sayyid goal. The archaeologist navigates 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 bowstring the rights of the kalash. But the developments of breath have also left their mark and siad 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. Yes you know why it was marriage would only be possible after conversion. But it does it well enough. But then we. Did 20 year old maya one talk with her family about her reasons. And. Its a tough situation for all of them are the 3 that we did little. Other who. Were here geared up and worked with our parents were very alarmed when she converted but she can be a good person as a muslim to so its all right its her decision was the most important thing is that shes a good person. Just right. But. Dressed as a muslim. On pitch i miss colors things just like with my family. I did go on wearing it but i dont know any western in love. 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 you are not committed to islam or have even abandoned it. And actually muslim on and that could antagonize religious extremists but again youre the whack and i should on a bigger issue thought there was another. How do you feel about your daughter converting to islam. That you know where can i see you the guy that i was on i his i have to accept it she is my daughter he said be god he she is still a good person and thats about masses of the libretto is what you need to enjoy me here during ramadan i tried to relieve her of her trolls but she still always wanted to help me get what. I want whats best for her you could end with them she was my daughter. Kind of bomb we were just like you know. How good sister and i am i am girl 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. And leave. The kalash a Durham Museum and banderas it 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 so i have go comes here often. Just that has a budget where 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 me. It happens in an indirect way the money. On the one hand there are many of us. And our children are influenced in school was just a doodle of their dad as that is that. The things they learn to push them further away from our culture was at the camp are happy to step up at a party. Like maya 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 you 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. A colorful 100 b. The neck laces also have a long tradition they weigh up to several kilograms and the worn by women of all ages the number of chains increases as a woman grows older. Early summer is movie time bomb rats the sweet foods ripen almost off once. Everyone pitches in to harvest them and dry and store them for the long winter to come. Or at least the ones the cows leave behind. My. Name now. For the kalash it is normal to few animals not as property but as partners. With. Persecutors mother uses the fresh milk to make cheese butter and. Gather that for now are. The. Residents here no 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. And 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. Or. A. Good deal gets told. We run the hotel as a family. When the unit is done only that earns a some money to pay for a childrens education to the middle aged legal limit if indeed money while there are many other opportunities here theres jobs for all of them and for you theres no industry in the valley meaning no jobs in the world must be a tourist only come during 2 or 3 months of the year just to keep those you know one comes in the winter time tours of duty here but tourism at least gives us a small income which commodity. Persecutor and her mother also profit from not. Put up but the other version that did good i did like the tourists they come here in the Summer Holidays for our festivals we dont have walls of fences around our houses so they just walk right in and take pictures. I dont like the house. But that is a. Little way up the river life still seems normal im going to stir by turds. Lives here with her family. The 14 year old student. Faces the same questions most young kalash do searching follow in their 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. Only hear. Them. In their. Goals in hours father shire alam is a teacher instructs the children in a spare time. When. You. Patiently teaches them reading writing and in wish. To do more to do more they dont need blackboards or notebooks. Pebbles will also do the trick. The collateral 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. Think issue kalash culture and language are on 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 which cannot. Keep my good at nothing much as your average all the knowledge it gives you yeah. Lovely couple yes. Maam. You have to roll your tongue here was more. Than or. Her. Eat her. Heart. And there was. Something was happening one of them was nice car. Was. Her. Clothes. You can at least laugh. 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 they have separate classes for boys and girls and follow the islamic curriculum. Us and if youre christian it is an education is so important because if the children want to get an education they have to go to other towns and. 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 been a part of the changes will come. If we have education it improves our culture to. Make our children learn that they have a choice as. Education shows them the way it is the light. Goes in on their sister headed to the bumper at high school. Goes in our is in the 8th grade there she takes along her door to put on in the classroom wearing the child or is that mandatory for kalash girls but in the predominantly Muslim School environment most of them feel more comfortable that it. Was. Causing 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. How. We. Eat. Meat. That. Goes in our doesnt 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 our parents home for several days. A mother gets her clothes ready and prepares a lunch before goes in makes her way to push alley. But surely 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. That. By. The kalash divide the world into the categories im just a im proud to tell ya im just a mean Something Like high or pure prophets 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 products 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 jewellers and serves as orientation for the kalash a way of organizing everyday life. This part of the vision into good and bad. From dont think it will give anything. Up. Here. But they will figure out. How. You. Knew. When i waited a bit shyly goes you not is not allowed to cross the upper part of the village. To a therapist surely is lung and heart. And. She makes a detour around the village keeping as far from other people as possible. With the wise it could bring misfortune. Or a few records of the origins and development of collapse culture. Clash people have no history books or written traditions all the cultural knowledge is possibility. 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 referred to it as the source of creation. And my view. Goes you know is a new comer in the push. That 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 pasha is a 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 goldstein are finds their forst 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 clear go out in. I like playing football like. Maybe it would be lies maybe i love the colors our clothing our festivals everything thats the send. It as many rides i would like to go to college and 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 College People so much. Was. Whether its a womans menstrual cycle the seasons of the year or 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 of also gathers and goes in as has a mother dr goh has her friends over for afternoon tea. Boys have the body and. God just said we should think about what the bus shalini was to us women. What does this tradition mean that people bought almost in the sides got a bit more. There but you mustnt. Take on a few days of rest before you go back home. Again. Even the older women who no longer go to the challis we talk regularly. Conversations range from reflections on culture to everyday topics what are the children doing whats cooking and who brought which baked goods. At least. Some of them. Maybe. Most of the older women consider the bush alley an asset a valuable part of the culture. A place that dignifies one who need help was back. But the push early 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 trial is the closest city to bond brett can be reached in 2 and a half hours the capital of Chitral District offers its 45000. 00 residents plenty of activities. Since 27 day and it has also had a university persecutor mother visiting her sister sophia. Many young kalash come here to study. Might. Just be 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. Is a. Little less and less looking looking lets get political down again looking at 9 weeks later now its ridiculous and missed it by finishing the. Moment lets at least say. You. Function will. You. Give me any reason to feel the decision being diluted by losing all goodwill if it isnt listening to me says the 1st lets stick to looking for itself looking over the years as well facing a bloodless plan because they dont let them have a look at and. Ill take it. Up but. Look at the wealth. Of atlanta. With departments including Political Science i. T. And economics the university is open to both men and women. But in the small cafeteria very strict gender segregation. Was. Definitely. A new world awaits persecutor a world full of technology and new regulations but also full of knowledge. That. I cant think. Of. Is that. What impact will that new world have on kalash culture. Bad side bad as so many women are wearing the child or. The child who is not a part of culture america but the any of the but the macabre getting it the opposite but what will remain of our culture when women veil themselves. That the men have long been dressing like the muslims do so its the women who keep our culture alive always get up to what jessica nationals that i doubt i have a very ada but then i took a look at it. Oh right i was. Right out. There. Was one of the. Cars that just wanted 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 a hotel spring up on the banks of the river. Newcomer wielding tourists intrude on the kalash on their fields. The same time the interest tourists are taking in this remote region is also an opportunity. They come here to experience a unique culture perhaps that will give it a chance of survival. When shes back home its as if girls you know was never away now she has to rush to get to school on time just as the parents expect her to. Perk knows. Every. 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. Environmentally conscious living. With maximum comfort. From tanzania is helping make it possible he started with sustainable ideas in his own home. 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