Ethnic groups

Language

Religious non-leteracy in a literate culture

Folklore and folk music

Folk music and instruments

Settlement patterns
Village
Town
City

Life cycle

The inward looking society

SEVERAL factors among them ecology, technology, and historical accident, influence settlement patterns and crystallize Afghan ethnic groups into two general categories, sedentary and non-sedentary. The interactional complex includes sedentary villages towns and cities and their relationships to nomads semi-nomads and semi-sedentary groups.