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

By: Coburn, NoahContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and culturesPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011Description: xi, 254 p. : illISBN: 9780804778909 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Potters -- Afghanistan -- Istalif | Political culture -- Afghanistan -- Istalif | Ethnology -- Afghanistan -- Istalif | Istalif (Afghanistan) -- Politics and government | Istalif (Afghanistan) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 958.1 LOC classification: DS375.I88 | C63 2011Online resources: Click to View
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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