Bazaar politics : power and pottery in an Afghan market town / Noah Coburn.
Material type: TextLanguage: Series: Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2011. Description: xi, 254 pages : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780804776721
- 9780804776714
- DS375. I88.
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Monograph | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | 3 | Available | 3ACKU000400001 | ||||
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“Includes bibliography”—(page 239-246).
Contents: Preface—A rocky road—1. Groups and violence (p. 5)—2. Social organization in Istalif (p. 22)—3. How making pots bound people together (p. 34)—4. How selling pots tore people apart (p. 53)—5. Leadership, descent, and marriage (p. 76)—6. Cultural definitions of power in Istalif (p. 106)—7. Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation (p. 145)—8. The Afghan state as a useful fiction (p. 182)—9. Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention (p. 208)—Note (p. 225)—Bibliography (p. 239)—Index (p. 247)—Photographs follow page 66.
Summary: “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 the forces driving local conflict and the insurgency, misunderstandings that have ultimately contributed to the political unrest rather than resolved it”—back cover.