TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coburn,Noah
TI  - Bazaar politics : : power and pottery in an Afghan market town / 
T2  - (Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures)
SN  - 9780804776721
AV  - DS375. I88.
PY  - 2011///.
CY  - Stanford, California : 
PB  - Stanford University Press, 
KW  - Potters
KW  -  Afghanistan
KW  -  Istalif
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Istalif (Afghanistan)
KW  -  Politics and government
KW  -  Social conditions
N1  - “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
N2  - 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
ER  -