Baloch Women: The Real Custodian of the Baloch Culture
Keywords:
Culture, achievement, progress, civilizationAbstract
Culture is a collective means of achievement and of progress. Culturally rich Balochistan is motherland of ancient civilization and Baloch society comparatively presents a picture of tolerant, gender cooperative, gender-non discriminatory and human society from other neighboring societies of the region. Culture of a particular region consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, values, attributes, code of honor, institutions, tools, works and art, religion, law, ethics, rituals, fairs and festivals of a specific group of people. The status of women in the Baloch society has ever been of a great importance and impact. Here we give some glimpses of the position and influence of women in the Baloch society. Baloch women have the significant role in the promotion of culture in the shape of folklore, literature, dress, art, handicrafts, traditional food, indigenous herbal treatment from the early ages of a human till the death in the whole life of any human being. Her life is a symbol of Baloch culture. She is real founder, contributor and protector of the Baloch culture.
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