Coburn, Noah.

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. .

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780804778909 (electronic bk.)




Potters--Afghanistan--Istalif.
Political culture--Afghanistan--Istalif.
Ethnology--Afghanistan--Istalif.


Istalif (Afghanistan)--Politics and government.
Istalif (Afghanistan)--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

DS375.I88 / C63 2011

958.1