Bazaar politics : power and pottery in an Afghan market town / / Noah Coburn.
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| Superior document: | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 254 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.