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Bazaar Politics : Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town.
After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; A Rocky Road; 1. Groups and Violence; Ethnography and Suspicion; 2. Social Organization in Istalif; Making Pots; 3. How Making Pots Bound People Together; The Art of Finding a Bargain; 4. How Selling Pots Tore People Apart; Telling Stories; 5. Leadership, Descent, and Marriage; Dinner; 6. Cultural Definitions of Power in Istalif; Election Day; 7. Masterly Inactivity: The Politics of Stagnation; The Director of Intelligence; 8. The Afghan State as a Useful Fiction; Paktya--Eighteen Months Later; 9. Thinking About Violence, Social Organization, and International Intervention.