Understanding and addressing context in rural Afghanistan : how villages differ and why / Adam Pain and Paula Kantor ; editing Shannon Mathieu ; layout Oliver Lough.

“December 2010”.

“Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit”—at head of title.

“Includes bibliography”—(p. 48-52).

Contents: Glossary—Acronyms—Executive summary—1. Introduction—2. The relevance of regional identities—3. Village republics : the evidence of village social orders—4. Taking account of village conditions—5. Conclusions and implications—Appendix—Bibliography—Recent publications from AREU.

Summary: “This paper draws on a study of changing household economies in 11 villages across four provinces in Afghanistan since 2002. It analyses the significance of regional contexts and their long histories, pointing to differences between the more egalitarian subsistence societies of the mountains and the rich but socially unequal agricultural surplus societies of the plains. It locates the four study provinces--Badakhshan, Sar-i-Pul, Faryab and Kandahar--within these regional histories and points to their distinctive orders…”—executive summary.