Bazaar Politics : Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town.
After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780804778909 0804778906 0804776717 9780804776714 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; A Rocky Road; 1. Groups and Violence; Ethnography and Suspicion; 2. Social Organization in Istalif; Making Pots; 3. How Making Pots Bound People Together; The Art of Finding a Bargain; 4. How Selling Pots Tore People Apart; Telling Stories; 5. Leadership, Descent, and Marriage; Dinner; 6. Cultural Definitions of Power in Istalif; Election Day; 7. Masterly Inactivity: The Politics of Stagnation; The Director of Intelligence; 8. The Afghan State as a Useful Fiction; Paktya--Eighteen Months Later; 9. Thinking About Violence, Social Organization, and International Intervention.