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Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society

By Nancy Tapper

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780521024679, 0521024676, 0521381584, 9780521381581, 9780511521157
LCC
DS354.58 .T37 1991
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2365814 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Edition
1
Pages
336\335
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender.

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