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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2011.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Iran ;
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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.