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Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society

Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society

Lindisfarne, Nancy
Fortes, Meyer
Tapper, Nancy

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 74

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ISBN10: 0521381584
ISBN13: 9780521381581
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 23 1991
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender.

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