Contents

Preface Vll

1. Introduction 1 HERMANN KREUTZMANN

SECTION 1: ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES 2. Geology of the Hunza Karakoram 7 MIKE SEARLE 3. Quaternary Glaciation 12 LEWIS A. OWEN 4. The Past Hunza Glacier in Connection with a Pleistocene Karakoram Ice Stream Network during the Last Ice Age (Wiirm) 24 MATTHIAS KUHLE 5. Glaciers of the Hunza Basin and Related Features 49 KENNETH HEWITT 6. Geomorphology and Mountain Hazards in the Hunza Valley 73 EDWARD DERBYSHIRE AND MONIQUE FORT 7. Transglacial Landforms in the Karakoram (Pakistan): A Case Study from the Shimshal Valley 96 LASAFAM ITURRIZAGA 8. Vegetation of Hunza Valley: Diversity, Altitudinal Distribution and Human Impact 109 EINAR EBERHARDT, W. BERNHARD DICKORE AND GEORG MIEHE 9. The Forests of Hunza Valley: Scarce Resources Under Threat 123 UDO SCHICKHOFF 10. The Markhor Capra falconeri in Northern Pakistan: Will its Future Become a Story of Success? 145 RUEDI HESS

SECTION 2: HISTORY AND MEMORY 11. Hunza-Haldeikish Revisited: Epigraphical Evidence for Trans-regional History 159 JASON NEELIS 12. Sources of Gilgit, Hunza and Nager History (1500-1800) and Comments on the Oral Roots of Local Historiography 171 WOLFGANG HOLZWARTH 13. Passage to Hunza: Route Nets and Political Process in a Mountain State 191 IRMTRAUD STELLRECHT VI CONTENTS

14. The Battle of Nilt in 1891: Oral Traditions as Sources of History in Nager 217 JURGEN WASIM FREMBGEN

15. Zawaar Mayiin All of the Clan of Yabon: Hispare Sajird 225 HUGH VAN SKYHAWK

16. Linguistic Diversity in the Hunza Valley 236 GEORG BUDDRUSS 17. Tradition and Transition: Linguistic Studies in Gojal 246 BE ATE REINHOLD 18. Settlement History of the Hunza Valley and Linguistic Variegations in Space and Time 251 HERMANN KREUTZMANN

19. Changes Over Time: Hunza in Treble Vision: 1930s and 1990s 273 JULIE FLOWERDAY

SFXTION 3: CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT 20. Reconciling Culture and Development in the Hunza Valley: Concepts and Programmes of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture 287 STEFANO BLANCA 21. The Conservation of Baltit Fort 1981-1996 293 RICHARD HUGHES AND DIDIER LEFORT 22. Conceptual Planning in the Karakoram: The Built Heritage and Dynamics of Institution Building 305 MASOOD A. KHAN

23. The Landscapes of Mominabad: Meanings and Identities 320 ANNA SCHMID 24. High Mountain Agriculture and its Transformation in a Changing Socio-economic Environment 329 HERMANN KREUTZMANN 25. Economic Transition in Hunza and Nager Valleys 359 ABDUL MALIK AND MUJTABA PTRACHA

26. Transfer of Education to the Mountains 370 SABINE FELMY 27. Empowerment of Civil Society for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Karakoram Area Development Organization in Hunza 382 AMIN BEG AND KHAWAJA KHAN 28. Tourism and Portering: Labour Relations in Shimshal, Gojal Hunza 394 DAVID BUTZ 29. Story of Our Transformation 404 NAZIR SABIR

List of Contributors 411 Index 417 PPN: 262200406 Titel: Karakoram in transition : culture, development, and ecology in the Hunza Valley / ed. by Hermann Kreutzmann. - . - Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-19-547210-3; 0-19-547210-1 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund