TY - BOOK AU - Coburn,Noah ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Bazaar politics: power and pottery in an Afghan market town T2 - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures AV - DS375.I88 C63 2011eb U1 - 958.1 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Potters KW - Afghanistan KW - Istālif KW - Political culture KW - Ethnology KW - Istālif (Afghanistan) KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10493936 ER -