Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Glossary of Kalasha Words Used in the Text
Introduction
Part I: The Context
1. The Kalasha: Historical and Cultural Context
2. The Kalasha: the Traditional Model
3. The Community of Birir Valley
Part II: Winter Feasts in Birir
4. The Narrative: the Chaumos Festival
5. The Narration: the Other Winter Feasts
6. The Deep Meaning of the Kalasha Chaumos
Introduction
7. Peristan and the Indian World
8. Peristan and Archaic Europe
9. Peristan and the Proto-Indo-Europeans
Epilogue
Appendix: Chronological Outline of Birir Winter Feasts
Bibliography
Index