A Land Without Time A Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan

by Sumser, John

• ISBN13: 9780897335430
• ISBN10: 0897335430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers

Summary

Since 9/11, the American appetite for information on Afghanistan has surged. The bulk of this information has come from the media, Afghan scholars or from the Afghans themselves.

Author Biography

John Robert Sumser was born in Philadelphia and earned an MA in Philosophy at San Jose University, and an MA and PhD in Sociology at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY. He is a Professor of Communications Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of "Mass Communication or Mass Confusion: Meaning in Prime Time Television," for which he received a grant award, and a number of books in the communications field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Getting There
The Decision	p. 3
The Group	p. 7
Kabul, the First Time
Red Pants	p. 15
Pilsner Urquel	p. 21
Bolting Cups Together	p. 25
Corrupting the Culture	p. 29
Laghman
Watermelons	p. 37
Watermelons, Part Two	p. 43
Camping	p. 47
Going to Work	p. 53
Chicken Bus to Jalalabad	p. 57
Dinner in Laghman	p. 65
Kholm (Tashkurgan)
Getting Tashkurgan	p. 73
Living in Tashkurgan	p. 81
The Visit	p. 87
The Fullbright Scholar	p. 91
Being Mean to Students: Part One	p. 95
Dreaming of Water	p. 103
Kissing in the Hallway	p. 105
Kabul, The Second Time
Girls in the Rain	p. 115
The Morning Parade	p. 121
Spies Like Us	p. 123
Bamiyan	p. 131
Boiling Water	p. 139
The Bank	p. 143
Being Mean to Students: Part Two	p. 147
The Last Days
The Games	p. 155
The Coup	p. 159
What Difference Does it Make?	p. 169
Not Arrested	p. 173
Still Not Arrested	p. 181
At Long Last, Not Arrested at All	p. 191
Afterward	p. 199
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