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Title Revolutions and rebellions in Afghanistan : anthropological perspectives / edited by M. Nazif Shahrani, Robert L. Canfield
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages) : maps
Contents Foreword to Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, 2022 Edition / M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield -- Preface / Robert L. Canfield -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Marxist "Revolution" and Islamic Resistance in Afghanistan / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Chapter 2. The Marxist Regimes and the Soviet Presence in Afghanistan: An Ages-Old Culture Responds to Late Twentieth-Century Aggression / Louis Dupree
Part II: Nuristan and Eastern Afghanistan -- Chapter 4. Responses to Central Authority in Nuristan: The Case of the Väygal Valley Kalasha / David J. Katz -- Chapter 5. The Rebellion in Darra-i Nur / R. Lincoln Keiser -- Part III: Qataghan and Badakhshan -- Chapter 6. Causes and Context of Responses to the Saur Revolution in Badakhshan / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Chapter 7. Weak Links on a Rusty Chain: Structural Weaknesses in Afghanistan's Provincial Government Administration / Thomas J. Barfield -- Chapter 8. Effects of the Saur Revolution in the Nahrin Area of Northern Afghanistan / Hugh Beattie
Part IV: Bamyan and Turkistan -- Chapter 9. Islamic Coalitions in Bamyan: A Problem in Translating Afghan Political Culture / Robert L. Canfield -- Chapter 10. Ethnicity and Class: Dimensions of Intergroup Conflict in North-Central Afghanistan / Richard Tapper -- Part V: Western and Southern Afghanistan -- Chapter 11. Sheikhanzai Nomads and the Afghan State: A Study of Indigenous Authority and Foreign Rule / Bahram Tavakolian -- Chapter 12. How Afghans Define Themselves in Relation to Islam / Jon W. Anderson -- Part VI: The Saur Revolution and the Afghan Woman
Chapter 13. Causes and Consequences of the Abolition of Brideprice in Afghanistan / Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper -- Chapter 14. Revolutionary Rhetoric and Afghan Women / Nancy Hatch Dupree -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 26, 2023)
Subject Social conditions
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001522
Afghanistan -- Social conditions
Subject Afghanistan
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Shahrani, M. Nazif Mohib, 1945- editor.
Canfield, Robert L. (Robert Leroy), editor.
Dupree, Louis, 1925-1989, author.
Katz, David J., author
Keiser, R. Lincoln, 1937- author.
Barfield, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1950- author.
Beattie, Hugh, author.
Tapper, Richard (Richard Lionel), author.
Tavakolian, Bahram, author
Anderson, Jon W., author
ISBN 0253066786
9780253066794
0253066794
9780253066787