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When bamboo bloom : an anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan / Patricia A. Omidian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, c2011. Description: xi, 123 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781577667001
  • 157766700X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS371.33. O45 2011
Contents:
Contents: Acknowledgments—Introduction—1. Kabul : a Taliban summer—2. Hazarajat—3. Herat—4. Hospitality is not safe—5. Programs : applying anthropoly—6. Evacuation—Conclusion : dilemmas of fieldwork—Postscript—Appendixes—Notes—References.
Summary: Summary: "When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologist̕s highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a local language, exposes the searing realities of scarce access to education and health care alongside limited resources and personal loss in Kabul, Hazarajat, and Herat"—back cover.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University DS371.33.O45 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000358050
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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Acknowledgments—Introduction—1. Kabul : a Taliban summer—2. Hazarajat—3. Herat—4. Hospitality is not safe—5. Programs : applying anthropoly—6. Evacuation—Conclusion : dilemmas of fieldwork—Postscript—Appendixes—Notes—References.

Summary: "When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologist̕s highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a local language, exposes the searing realities of scarce access to education and health care alongside limited resources and personal loss in Kabul, Hazarajat, and Herat"—back cover.

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