A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes.

A survey of the long history of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan suggests there are common patterns in the causes of violence amongst Afghans of the region. The hypothesis of this article i...

Political leadership among Swat Pathans

Managing Helmand province: From Bost to Bastion:

Pashtunwali and the American military

Etude de la place et du role des chamans chez les Baruya Anga, les Baktaman, les Gebusi et les Etoro de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee d'un point de vue religieux, politique et social et en les situant par rapport aux guerriers et aux « big men ». Chaque categorie de leader represente des cas differents de relations avec le corps et l'intersection entre les genres politiques et les conceptions de pouvoir est a voir en terme d'interrelations entre le corps et l'esprit : le chaman combine une influence sur les deux.

Between Body and Mind: Shamans and Politics among the Anga, Baktaman and Gebusi in Papua New Guinea

Generation Terrorised: Muslim Youth, Being British and Not so British

This chapter looks at processes that have contributed to accommodating trust networks into public politics. In Scandinavia, this seems to have happened to a great extent, and the chapter explores some aspects of how this has occurred, and why, and examines some of its implications. In comparative terms, popular political mobilization in Scandinavia was quite successful in influencing the state, not only by forcing it to make concessions, but also by integrating forms of trust, horizontal loyalty, and certain values and interests that became important for developing policy—such as individual autonomy and universalism. Trust networks were not simply absorbed by the hierarchical—and partly clientelistic—logic of the state apparatus. The first section of the chapter discusses the nature of organized popular opposition to state power and its implications. In the second section, dealing with contemporary local politics, how oppositional interests form alliances that challenge routine politics of governance is shown.

Political leadership among Swat Pathans

Citations

Managing Helmand province: From Bost to Bastion:

Pashtunwali and the American military

Between Body and Mind: Shamans and Politics among the Anga, Baktaman and Gebusi in Papua New Guinea

Generation Terrorised: Muslim Youth, Being British and Not so British

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Political Resistance: Notes on the Political Roots of Egalitarianism in Scandinavia

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