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The Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography The Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography ACKU 6th Edition - July 2011 Compiled by Christian Bleuer The Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography 6th Edition - July 2011 Compiled by: Christian Bleuer PhD Candidate, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia) The Australian National University [email protected] Published by The Afghanistan Analyst http://afghanistan-analyst.org ACKU Check for updated versions of this bibliography at: http://afghanistan-analyst.org/bibliography.aspx 3 Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….…..page 4. 1. Ethnic Groups……………………………………….……………………….….page 5. 2. Conflict and Mobilization: War, Ethnicity, Jihad, Taliban, Factions, “Warlords,” etc… (Late 1970s to the present)……..…………….page 33. 3. Islam: Political Islam, Sharia, “Jihad”, Sects and Religious Affairs.............page 60. 4. State-Building: The International Community, Reconstruction, Security, Economy, Government and Development……………………...…………....page 67. 5. Policy: Announcements, Recommendations and Criticisms……….………page 114. 6. Opium: Cultivation, Drug Use and Trafficking…….……….…..……..…...page 131. 7. Land: Environment, Agriculture, Property Issues, and Natural Resources………………………..……………..………….……page 143. 8. Human Rights ………….………………..……………..……………….……page 152. 9. Women, Gender and Family……………………………..……………….….page 160. 10. Military: Operations, Civil-Military Relations, PRTs and COIN……..…page 171. 11. Security Sector: DDR, Militias, Afghan National Army and Police, PMCs and Security Contractors…………………………………...………page 193. 12. Population Movements: Refugees, IDPs and Migration………………….page 199. 13. Health and Medicine…………………………………………….…………..pageACKU 207. 14. Education…………………………...……………………………….……….page 210. 15. Macro and Micro Economics………..………………………………...……page 212. 16. Public Opinion: Interviews, Study Groups, Polls and Surveys…..…...….page 218. 17. Periodicals and Academic Journals.……………………..………………...page 221. 18. Law Bibliography by Tim Mathews…………………………..……………page 223. http://afghanistan-analyst.org 4 The Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography Introduction This bibliography is intended to be an up-to-date resource for studying and researching contemporary Afghanistan. The vast majority of sources included are from after the late 1970s, except for in the bibliography section on ethnic groups and, to a lesser extent, on Islam. I did not compile sources on linguistics, art, literature, pre-/mid-20th Century history or on the natural sciences (unless applied to resource management), and the sources on the Soviet-Afghan war are limited (a specific section on the Soviet-Afghan War may be added in the future). You should be able to find sources such as these in some of the various standard Afghanistan bibliographies that have been published in book form. However, these bibliographies are usually poor in regards to more recent sources. This bibliography will remain confined to sources published in English, with a few select sources in French, German and Russian. It will be updated approximately once per year to include newly published sources plus older sources that were inadvertently omitted. Check the website for new editions. If you would like to suggest a book or other source for inclusion, preferably from an academic journal or well-established research institute, please send your suggestion to [email protected] Due to time and budget constraints, the next edition may not be published until 2013. Christian Bleuer Canberra, Australia. ACKU http://afghanistan-analyst.org 5 The Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography #1 Ethnic Groups 1.1 Pashtun 1.2 Hazara 1.3 Uzbek 1.4 Turkmen 1.5 Nuristani 1.6 Tajik 1.7 Baluch 1.8 Pashai 1.9 Other/various groups Note: The sources in this section are not confined strictly to ethnographies. And in regards to Pashtuns and Baluchis, some studies from Pakistan are included. Ethnic categories are used here loosely for ease of categorization. 1.1 Pashtun Books Abdul Quddus, Syed. 1987. The Pathans. Lahore: Ferozsons. Ahmed, Akbar. 1980. Pakhtun Economy and Society. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Ahmed, Akbar. 1976. Millenium and Charisma Among Pathans. London: Routledge. Banerjee, Mukulika. 2000. The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier. School of American Research Press. Barth, Frederick. 1959. Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans. LSE Monograph Series, NY: Humanities Press ACKU Barth, Fredrik. 1981. Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans. Routledge & Kegan Paul. Berrenberg, Jeanne. 2002. Eine Sache der Ehre: Uber die Grundlagen Sozialer Prozesse bei den Pashtunen Pakistans und Afghanistans Anhand Ihrer Heirastformen. Frankfurt am Main: Lang. Caroe, Olaf. 2000 (reprint of 1958 edition). The Pathans: 500 B.C.-A.D. 1957. London: Kegan Paul International. http://afghanistan-analyst.org 6 Dessart, Laurent. 2001. Les Pachtounes: Economie et Culture d’une Aristocratie Guerriere. Paris: L’Harmattan. Edwards, David B. 1996. Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Ferdinand, Klaus. 2006. Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980. Copenhagen: Rhodos International. Glatzer, B. 1977. Nomaden von Gharjistan. Wiesbaden. Grima, Benedicte. 1992. The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women: “The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me.” Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Hussain, S. Iftikhar. 2000, 1990. Some major Pukhtoon tribes along the Pak-Afghan border. [Edited by M.Y. Effendi]. Peshawar: Area Study Centre Peshawar and Hanns Seidel Foundation, 2000. Originally a PhD. thesis: Peshawar University, 1990. Jentsch, C. 1973. Das Nomadentum in Afghanistan (Afghanische Studien 9), Meisenheim. Khan, G. 1958. The Pathans: A Sketch. Peshawar: University Books. Kuhnert, G. 1980. Falknerei in Afghanistan. Bonn. Lebedev, Konstatin. 1997. Afganskii Narod: Pashtuny. Moscow: Nauka. Lindholm, Charles. 1996. Frontier Perspectives. Oxford University Press Pakistan. Lindholm, C. 1982. Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan. New York: Columbia University Press. Nichols, Robert. 2008. A History of Pashtun Migration, 1775-2006. Oxford U Press. Pedersen, Gorm. 1995. Afghan Nomads in Transition: A Century of Change Among the Zala Khan Khel. Thames & ACKUHudson. Poullada, Leon B. 1970. The Pushtun Role in the Afghan Political System. New York: Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society. Quddus, S.A. 1987. The Pathans. Lahore: Ferozsons. Rittenberg, Stephen Alan. 1988. Ethnicity, nationalism, and the Pakhtuns: the independence movement in India's North-west Frontier Province. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. Spain, J. 1963. The Pathan Borderland. The Hague: Mouton. http://afghanistan-analyst.org 7 Steul, Willi. 1981. Paschtunwali: Ein Ehrenkodex und seine rechtliche Relevanz. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag. Tapper, Nancy. 1991. Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Temirkhanov, L. 1987. Vostochnye pushtuny: osnovnye problemy novoi istorii. Nauka. Temirkhanov, L. 1984. Vostochnye pushtuny v novoe vremia. Moscow: Nauka. Wald, Hermann Josef. 1969. Landnutzung und Siedlung der Pashtunen im Becken von Khost (ostl. Afghanistan). Opladen: Leske. Weinreich, Matthias. 2008. “We Are Here to Stay”: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Band 285. Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Articles, report and book chapters Ahady, Anwar-ul-Haq. 1995. ‘The Decline of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan’, Asian Survey, Vol. 35, No. 7 (July 1995), pp. 621-634. Ahmed, Aisha and Roger Boase. 2008. Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier. Saqi Books. Ahmed, Akbar S. 1984. ‘Religious presence and symbolism in Pukhtun society’, in Islam in Tribal societies, from the Atlas to the Indus. Akbar S. Ahmed and D.M. Hart (editors). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Anderson, J. 1975. ‘Tribe and community among the Ghilzai Pashtun: Preliminary notes on ethnographic distribution and variation in Eastern Afghanistan’, Anthropos, 70 (1975). Anderson, J. W. 1982. Cousin Marriage in Context: Constructing Social Relations in Afghanistan, Folk, Vol. 24, ACKUpp. 7-28. Anderson, J. W. 1983. ‘Khan and Khel: dialects of Pakhtun tribalism’, in The conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan. Richard Tapper (editor) St. Martin’s Press. Anderson, J.W. 1985. ‘Sentimental Ambivalence and the Exegesis of “Self” in Afghanistan’, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 203-211. Anderson, J. W. 1978. ‘There are no Khans anymore: economic development and social change in tribal Afghanistan’, in Middle East Journal, 32. http://afghanistan-analyst.org 8 ARRC. 2009. ‘My Cousin’s Enemy is My Friend: A Study of Pashtun “Tribes” in Afghanistan’, Afghanistan Research Reachback Center White Paper. TRADOC G2 Human Terrain System. United States Army. Fort Leavenworth, KS. Download PDF. Atayee, Ibrahim. 1979. A dictionary of the terminology of Pashtun's tribal customary law and usages. Translated by A. Mohammad Shinwary. Edited by A. Jabar Nader. Kabul: International Centre for Pashto Studies, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan. Balikci, Asen. 1990. ‘Tenure and transhumance: stratification and pastoralism among the Lakenkhel’, in The world of pastoralism: herding systems in comparative perspective. Eds. John G. Galaty, Douglas L. Johnson. New York; London: The Guilford Press. Balikci, Asen. 1981. ‘Pastoralism and class differentiation among the Lakenkhel’, in
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