Books & Chapters - Second Semester

The readings are available as follows.

  1. Culture and Ethnography
    1. What is Culture by Henslin
    2. Ethnic Group and the State by Brass Chapter
    3. Problematising Culture by Chaney
  2. Ethncity and Nation
    1. What is Ethnicity by Eriksen Ch1
    2. Ethno-symbolism by Anthony D Smith chapter 8
    3. Ethnic and National Identity by Milasevic
  3. History of Afghanistan
    1. Introduction to Afghanistan by Adamec Adamec
    2. History of Civilizations of Central Asia Vol 2 Chapter 7
    3. History of Civilizations of Central Asia Vol 3 Chapter 7
  4. Ethno-geopolitics of Afghanistan
    1. Robert Canfield, Ethnic, Regional and Sectarian Alignments of Afghanistan
    2. Abubakar Siddique, Afghanistan's Ethnic Divides
    3. Sven Gunnar Simonsen, Ethnicising Afghanistan?
    4. Richard Tapper, Nomad Self-Identities in Afghanistan
  5. Religion and State Identity
    1. Oliver Roy, Islam, and Resistance in Afghanistan Chapter 1_2
    2. Asta Olesen, Islam and Politics in Afghanistan Ch_1
    3. Oliver Roy, Failure of Political Islam Introduction
    4. Sociogenesis of the Afghan State Ch1_doronsorro
  6. Ethnic Conflict in Afghanistan
    1. Drronssoro, Commanders & Jihadi parties,
    2. Dorronssoro, Ethnicisation of Conflict
  7. Religion and Nation
    1. A Study of Islamic Thought: Salafism, Wahabism, Sufism.
  1. Extra readings
    1. Principles of Macrosociology by Elwell
    2. The Ethnographic Method, excerpts 1, 2.
    3. Towards a General Theory by Moynihan
    4. Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner Chapter 1
    5. Ethnicity and Nation: Gellner, Smith & Barth Kuang Hu
    6. The Ghaznavids Chapter 5
    7. Development of Islamic Texts The Hadiths
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