Trading Worlds
Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers
Published on 15. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-024798-0 (ISBN)
Description
A remarkable anthropological study of Afghan merchants that tells us much about how trading diasporas function in an era of globalization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-024798-0 (9780190247980)
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Magnus Marsden is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. 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.