Bartered Brides
Subtitle: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521381581
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Women; Love / Sex / Marriage; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Afghanistan; Marriage; Anthropology - General; Durani (Afghanistan people)--Marriage customs; Durani (Afghanistan people)--Marriage customs and rites; Family & Relationships / Marriage; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science-Anthropology - General; Durani (Afghanistan people); Family; Marriage customs and rites
First sentence: The fieldwork on which this study is based began when RLT and I travelled in western Afghan Turkistan for a month in 1968.