Richard Tapper is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. His publications include the monographs Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict, and Ritual among Shahsevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran, as well as Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform.Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K for many years. She has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Wales and the USA. Her books include Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society, Dancing in Damascus, The Roots of Sexual Violence, and the edited Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, and Masculinities under Neoliberalism.

• PrefaceList of Maps, Tables and FiguresList of illustrationsChapter 1 – Prologue: Introducing the PiruzaiChapter 2 – The Es’haqzai Come NorthChapter 3 – Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-PolChapter 4 – Tribal PoliticsChapter 5 – A Shepherd’s LifeChapter 6 – For the AnimalsChapter 7 – Land: A Golden Tent-PegChapter 8 – On the FarmChapter 9 – Other BusinessChapter 10 – The Marriage MarketChapter 11 – Family MattersChapter 12 – Religion, Life, Death, DiseaseChapter 13 – The World of JinnsChapter 14 – Shrines, Sufis, ExorcismChapter 15 – Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972Appendices 1 – Ancestors2 – Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-20163 – Recording and Editing the StoriesGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

This is therefore a considerable collection, both in terms of quality and quantity, representing an enormous amount of work, first of transcribing the contents of the magnetic tapes, then of translating the transcribed texts from Pashtu into English ... The resident originality and interest of the work of Tappe: delivering the speech lived in Piruzai on themselves, it offers an attractive the illustration of the sometimes called the perspective emic (indigenous) distinguishing it from the perspective etic (one of the researchers, anthropologists , sociologists, historians, etc). Through a richness and authenticity of the information, Afghan Village Voices could possibly encourage some researchers to attempt an etic approach without having to endure the discomforts of the ethnographic field!

Richard Tapper is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. His publications include the monographs Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict, and Ritual among Shahsevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran, as well as Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform.Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K for many years. She has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Wales and the USA. Her books include Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society, Dancing in Damascus, The Roots of Sexual Violence, and the edited Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, and Masculinities under Neoliberalism.

• PrefaceList of Maps, Tables and FiguresList of illustrationsChapter 1 – Prologue: Introducing the PiruzaiChapter 2 – The Es’haqzai Come NorthChapter 3 – Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-PolChapter 4 – Tribal PoliticsChapter 5 – A Shepherd’s LifeChapter 6 – For the AnimalsChapter 7 – Land: A Golden Tent-PegChapter 8 – On the FarmChapter 9 – Other BusinessChapter 10 – The Marriage MarketChapter 11 – Family MattersChapter 12 – Religion, Life, Death, DiseaseChapter 13 – The World of JinnsChapter 14 – Shrines, Sufis, ExorcismChapter 15 – Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972Appendices 1 – Ancestors2 – Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-20163 – Recording and Editing the StoriesGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

This is therefore a considerable collection, both in terms of quality and quantity, representing an enormous amount of work, first of transcribing the contents of the magnetic tapes, then of translating the transcribed texts from Pashtu into English ... The resident originality and interest of the work of Tappe: delivering the speech lived in Piruzai on themselves, it offers an attractive the illustration of the sometimes called the perspective emic (indigenous) distinguishing it from the perspective etic (one of the researchers, anthropologists , sociologists, historians, etc). Through a richness and authenticity of the information, Afghan Village Voices could possibly encourage some researchers to attempt an etic approach without having to endure the discomforts of the ethnographic field!

Richard Tapper is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. His publications include the monographs Pasture and Politics: Economics, Conflict, and Ritual among Shahsevan Nomads of Northwestern Iran, as well as Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform.Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K for many years. She has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Wales and the USA. Her books include Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society, Dancing in Damascus, The Roots of Sexual Violence, and the edited Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, and Masculinities under Neoliberalism.

• PrefaceList of Maps, Tables and FiguresList of illustrationsChapter 1 – Prologue: Introducing the PiruzaiChapter 2 – The Es’haqzai Come NorthChapter 3 – Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-PolChapter 4 – Tribal PoliticsChapter 5 – A Shepherd’s LifeChapter 6 – For the AnimalsChapter 7 – Land: A Golden Tent-PegChapter 8 – On the FarmChapter 9 – Other BusinessChapter 10 – The Marriage MarketChapter 11 – Family MattersChapter 12 – Religion, Life, Death, DiseaseChapter 13 – The World of JinnsChapter 14 – Shrines, Sufis, ExorcismChapter 15 – Epilogue: The Piruzai since 1972Appendices 1 – Ancestors2 – Afghanistan and Sar-e-pol, 1972-20163 – Recording and Editing the StoriesGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

This is therefore a considerable collection, both in terms of quality and quantity, representing an enormous amount of work, first of transcribing the contents of the magnetic tapes, then of translating the transcribed texts from Pashtu into English ... The resident originality and interest of the work of Tappe: delivering the speech lived in Piruzai on themselves, it offers an attractive the illustration of the sometimes called the perspective emic (indigenous) distinguishing it from the perspective etic (one of the researchers, anthropologists , sociologists, historians, etc). Through a richness and authenticity of the information, Afghan Village Voices could possibly encourage some researchers to attempt an etic approach without having to endure the discomforts of the ethnographic field!