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Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan /

In 1978 and 1979 revolutions in Afghanistan and Iran marked a shift in the balance of power in South West Asia and the world. Then, as now, the world is once more aware that tribalism is no anachronism in a struggle for political and cultural self-determination. This books provides historical and an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tapper, Richard (Richard Lionel)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2011.
Colección:Routledge library editions. Iran ; 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / by Richard Tapper
  • 2. State, tribe and empire in Afghan inter-polity relations / by Rob Hager
  • 3. Khan and khel: dialectics of Pakhtun tribalism / by Jon W. Anderson
  • 4. Tribes and states in the Khyber, 1838-42 / by Malcolm Yapp
  • 5. Tribes and states in Waziristan / by Akbar S. Ahmed
  • 6. Political organisation of Pashtun nomads and the state / by Bernt Glatzer
  • 7. Abd Al-Rahman's north-west frontier: the Pashtun colonisation of Afghan Turkistan / by Nancy Tapper
  • 8. Why tribes have chiefs: a case form Baluchistan / by Philip Carl Salzman
  • 9. Iran and the Qashqai Tribal Confederacy / by Lois Beck
  • 10. Tribes, confederation and the state: an historical overview of the Bakhtiari and Iran / by Gene Garthwaite
  • 11. On the Bakhtiari: comments on 'tribes, confederation and the state' / by Jean-Pierre Digard
  • 12. The enemy within: limitations on leadership in the Bakhtiari / by David Brooks
  • 13. Kurdish tribes and the state of Iran: the case of Simko's Revolt / by Martin van Bruinessen
  • 14. Nomads and commissars in the Mughan Steppe: the Shahsevan tribes in the great game / by Richard Tapper
  • 15. The tribal society and its enemies / by Ernest Gellner
  • 16. Tribe and state: some concluding remarks / by Andrew Strathern.