Bazaar politics : power and pottery in an Afghan market town /

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Offering the first long-term on-the-ground study since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Noah Coburn introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of local residents and stories of his own experiences. He reveals the ways in which the international community has misunderstood...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coburn, Noah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Colección:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Temas:
Potters > Afghanistan > Istālif.
Political culture > Afghanistan > Istālif.
Ethnology > Afghanistan > Istālif.
HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Ethnology.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Potters.
Social conditions.
Istālif (Afghanistan) > Politics and government.
Istālif (Afghanistan) > Social conditions.
Afghanistan > Istālif.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Groups and violence : ethnography and suspicion
  • Social organization in Istalif : making pots
  • How making pots bound people together : the art of finding a bargain
  • And selling pots tore people apart : telling stories
  • Leadership, descent, and marriage : dinner
  • Cultural definitions of power in Istalif : election day
  • Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation : the director of intelligence
  • The Afghan state as a useful fiction : Paktya : eighteen months later
  • Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention.

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