Bazaar politics [electronic resource] : power and pottery in an Afghan market town / Noah Coburn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and culturesPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.Description: xi, 254 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 958.1 22
LOC classification:
  • DS375.I88 C63 2011eb
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Contents:
Groups and violence : ethnography and suspicion -- Social organization in Istalif : making pots -- How making pots bound people together : the art of finding a bargain -- And selling pots tore people apart : telling stories -- Leadership, descent, and marriage : dinner -- Cultural definitions of power in Istalif : election day -- Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation : the director of intelligence -- The Afghan state as a useful fiction : Paktya : eighteen months later -- Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Groups and violence : ethnography and suspicion -- Social organization in Istalif : making pots -- How making pots bound people together : the art of finding a bargain -- And selling pots tore people apart : telling stories -- Leadership, descent, and marriage : dinner -- Cultural definitions of power in Istalif : election day -- Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation : the director of intelligence -- The Afghan state as a useful fiction : Paktya : eighteen months later -- Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention.

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