When bamboo bloom : an anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan / Patricia A. Omidian.
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TextPublication details: Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, c2011. Description: xi, 123 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781577667001
- 157766700X
- Omidian, Patricia A
- Taliban
- Women anthropologists -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography
- Medical anthropology -- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Hazarajat (Afghanistan) -- Description and travel
- Herat (Afghanistan) -- Description and travel
- Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001
- DS371.33. O45 2011
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Monograph
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | DS371.33.O45 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3ACKU000358050 |
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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