Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society
Title | Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Leroy Canfield |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 1973-01-01 |
Genre | Afghanistan |
ISBN | 0932206484 |
FACTION AND CONVERSION: A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ALIGNMENTS IN A PLURAL SOCIETY
Title | FACTION AND CONVERSION: A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ALIGNMENTS IN A PLURAL SOCIETY PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Leroy Canfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Bāmīān Region (Afghanistan) |
ISBN |
Faction and Conversions
Title | Faction and Conversions PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Leroy Canfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Bāmiān region |
ISBN |
Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91
Title | Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91 PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Hyman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349219487 |
The book offers a clear, authoritative and readable guide to the modern history of Afghanistan. This remote land made up of many tribes and ethnic peoples on the borders of Central Asia became a focus of Superpower rivalry and international intrigue after the Soviet invasion in 1979. This book shows how Afghanistan's traditional society has been profoundly shaken up in a cruelly destructive war, causing the world's biggest refugee problem and a chronic instability which threatens the wider region.
Afghanistan Under Soviet Domination, 1964-83
Title | Afghanistan Under Soviet Domination, 1964-83 PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Hyman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 1984-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349174432 |
Islam Obscured
Title | Islam Obscured PDF eBook |
Author | D. Varisco |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2005-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1403973423 |
Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest Gellner in 1981). Two other texts are by Muslim scholars, Beyond the Veil (Fatima Mernissi in 1975) and Discovering Islam (by Akbar Ahmed in 1988). Varisco argues that each of these four authors approaches Islam as an essentialized organic unity rather than letting 'Islams' found in the field speak to the diversity of practice. The textual truths engendered, and far too often engineered, in these idealized representations of Islam have found their way unscrutinized into an endless stream of scholarly works and textbooks. Varisco's analysis goes beyond the rhetoric over what Islam is to the information from ethnographic research about what Muslims say they do and actually are observed to do. The issues covered include Islam as a cultural phenomenon, representation of 'the other', Muslim gender roles, politics of ethnographic authority, and Orientalist discourse.
Religion and Rural Revolt
Title | Religion and Rural Revolt PDF eBook |
Author | János M. Bak |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Peasant uprisings |
ISBN | 9780719009907 |