Coburn, Noah. <br/><br/>
Bazaar politics  power and pottery in an Afghan market town /  [electronic resource] : 
Noah Coburn. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  2011. 
 - xi, 254 p. :  ill. 
 - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures .
 - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Potters--Afghanistan--Istālif.<br/>Political culture--Afghanistan--Istālif.<br/>Ethnology--Afghanistan--Istālif.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Istālif (Afghanistan)--Politics and government.<br/>Istālif (Afghanistan)--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS375.I88  / C63 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.1