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Trading Worlds: Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers
Magnus Marsden
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Description for Trading Worlds: Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers
Paperback. A remarkable anthropological study of Pashtun Afghan merchants that tells us much about how trading diasporas function in an era of globalisation. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict traders from this and other conflict regions as immoral profiteers, the cronies of warlords or international drug smugglers. It shows, rather, the active role these merchants play in an ever-more globalised political economy. Afghan merchants, the author demonstrates, forge and occupy critical eco- nomic niches, both at home and abroad: from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, to the ports of the Black Sea; and in global cities ... Read more
Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict traders from this and other conflict regions as immoral profiteers, the cronies of warlords or international drug smugglers. It shows, rather, the active role these merchants play in an ever-more globalised political economy. Afghan merchants, the author demonstrates, forge and occupy critical eco- nomic niches, both at home and abroad: from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, to the ports of the Black Sea; and in global cities ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849043540
SKU
V9781849043540
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About Magnus Marsden
Magnus Marsden is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He has spent fifteen years conducting research in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and, with Benjamin Hopkins, is the author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier and editor of Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan- Pakistan Frontier.
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