Bartered Brides
Subtitle: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521024679
Subjects: Marriage; Sociology; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Afghanistan; Anthropology - Cultural; Durani (Afghanistan people)--Marriage customs; Durani (Afghanistan people)--Marriage customs and rites; Family & Relationships-Marriage; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science-Customs & Traditions; Anthropology - General; Durrani (Afghanistan people); Family; Marriage customs and rites; Women
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.