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Author Tapper, Richard (Richard Lionel)

Title Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan / by Richard Tapper.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Routledge library editions. Iran ; 32
Routledge library editions. Iran ; 32.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Introduction / by Richard Tapper -- 2. State, tribe and empire in Afghan inter-polity relations / by Rob Hager -- 3. Khan and khel: dialectics of Pakhtun tribalism / by Jon W. Anderson -- 4. Tribes and states in the Khyber, 1838-42 / by Malcolm Yapp -- 5. Tribes and states in Waziristan / by Akbar S. Ahmed -- 6. Political organisation of Pashtun nomads and the state / by Bernt Glatzer -- 7. Abd Al-Rahman's north-west frontier: the Pashtun colonisation of Afghan Turkistan / by Nancy Tapper -- 8. Why tribes have chiefs: a case form Baluchistan / by Philip Carl Salzman -- 9. Iran and the Qashqai Tribal Confederacy / by Lois Beck -- 10. Tribes, confederation and the state: an historical overview of the Bakhtiari and Iran / by Gene Garthwaite -- 11. On the Bakhtiari: comments on 'tribes, confederation and the state' / by Jean-Pierre Digard -- 12. Enemy within: limitations on leadership in the Bakhtiari / by David Brooks -- 13. Kurdish tribes and the state of Iran: the case of Simko's Revolt / by Martin van Bruinessen -- 14. Nomads and commissars in the Mughan Steppe: the Shahsevan tribes in the great game / by Richard Tapper -- 15. Tribal society and its enemies / by Ernest Gellner -- 16. Tribe and state: some concluding remarks / by Andrew Strathern.
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Subject Tribes -- Iran.
Tribes.
Iran.
Tribes -- Afghanistan.
Afghanistan.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1941-1979.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1941-1979
Subject Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-1989.
Chronological Term 1973-1989
1941-1989
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tapper, Richard. Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan. London : Routledge, 2011 9780415610568 (OCoLC)750815136
ISBN 9780203832080 (electronic book)
0203832086 (electronic book)
9780415610568
0415610567