%0 Journal Article
%T Thomas Barfield, Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
%A M. Jamil Hanifi
%J South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
%D 2011
%I Centre d¡¯Etudes de l¡¯Inde et de l¡¯Asie du Sud
%X The destabilization and military occupation of Afghanistan by the United States over the past three decades has triggered the hasty production of a large corpus of writings about the political and socio-cultural dynamics of the country by Euro-American academics, travellers, journalists, and aid and development workers. Anthropologists who have contributed to these writings have become instant ¡®authorities¡¯, ¡®experts¡¯, ¡®specialists¡¯, and ¡®old hands¡¯ about the country. Thomas Barfield is one o...
%U http://samaj.revues.org/3147