TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coburn,Noah
TI  - Bazaar politics: power and pottery in an Afghan market town 
T2  - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
SN  - 978-0-8047-7671-4
U1  - 958.1 23E
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Istālif (Afghanistan) / Politics and government
KW  - Istālif (Afghanistan) / Social conditions
KW  - Potters / Afghanistan / Istālif
KW  - Political culture / Afghanistan / Istālif
KW  - Ethnology / Afghanistan / Istālif
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 239-246; Groups and violence -- Social organization in Istalif -- How making pots bound people together -- How selling pots tore people apart -- Leadership, descent, and marriage -- Cultural definitions of power in Istalif -- Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation -- The Afghan state as a useful fiction -- Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention
N2  - Offering the first long-term on-the-ground study since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Noah Coburn introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of local residents and stories of his own experiences. He reveals the ways in which the international community has misunderstood the forces driving local conflict and the insurgency, misunderstandings that have ultimately contributed to the political unrest rather than resolved it. -- From publisher's description
ER  -