History and Folklore: The Comparative Analysis of a Specific Event
FAIN: RO-11831-72
American Universities Field Staff (Hanover, NH 03755)
Louis Dupree (Project Director: September 1972 to present)
To study the relationships between written history and oral traditions in the predominately non-literate Afghan society as revealed by the difference between written and oral records of the retreat of the British army from Kabul to Jalalabad in 1842.