When bamboo bloom
Subtitle: an anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan
By: Patricia A. Omidian
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Grove, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781577667001
Subjects: Social life and customs; Medical anthropology; Taliban; Description and travel; Social conditions; History; Biography; Women anthropologists
Other titles: Anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan
Description: "When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologist̕s highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a local language, exposes the searing realities of scarce access to education and health care alongside limited resources and personal loss in Kabul, Hazarajat, and Herat." - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 123).
Table of contents: title: Kabul: a Taliban summer; title: Hazarajat; title: Herat; title: Hospitality is not safe; title: Programs: applying anthropology; title: Evacuation; title: Conclusion: dilemmas of fieldwork.