ABSTRACT
In concluding, I wish to draw in the major strands of the argument I have made in the study and point out its salient features as I understand them in order to substantiate my thesis and its related problems. The major concern of the study has been to build an ideal-type model of Pukhtunwali, derived from literary, storiological, archival (Pukhtun and non-Pukhtun) but largely field-work data from TAM and SAM. The ideal-type model allows us to examine how the actor perceives social reality and to measure normative and deviant behaviour. It is a device which enables both the social actor and the social analyst to perceive value commensurability and value disjunction; the focus of Pukhtunwali remains on tarboorwali and tor. The high degree of similarity between the ideological model and the immediate model has been illustrated through case-studies. By an exercise in the taxonomy of Pukhtun social organization and a diachronic approach in analysis of data, I have attempted to establish that Pukhtunwali approximates to its purest form when tribal groups live outside larger state systems and in low-production geographical zones. I have argued that TAM approximates in the main to the ideal-type.
