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Preface | p. ix |
A Rocky Road | p. 1 |
Groups and Violence | p. 5 |
Ethnography and Suspicion | p. 17 |
Social Organization in Istalif | p. 22 |
Making Pots | p. 32 |
How Making Pots Bound People Together | p. 34 |
The Art of Finding a Bargain | p. 50 |
How Selling Pots Tore People Apart | p. 53 |
Telling Stories | p. 73 |
Leadership, Descent, and Marriage | p. 76 |
Dinner | p. 103 |
Cultural Definitions of Power in Istalif | p. 106 |
Election Day | p. 142 |
Masterly Inactivity: The Politics of Stagnation | p. 145 |
The Director of Intelligence | p. 180 |
The Afghan State as a Useful Fiction | p. 182 |
Paktya-Eighteen Months Later | p. 206 |
Thinking About Violence, Social Organization, and International Intervention | p. 208 |
Notes | p. 225 |
Bibliography | p. 239 |
Index | p. 247 |
Photographs follow page | p. 66 |
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