Thomas Barfield
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81431 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Barfield |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Barfield |
| ASSINATURA | BARFIELD T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6156-4836 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Why Constant Failures? Alternative Models of Governance for Afghanistan
The collapse of central governments four times in Afghanistan since 1929 (Amanullah, PDPA, Taliban, Republic) should have raised questions about the viability of highly centralized states in Afghanistan implementing contested political and cultural policies, and yet the Taliban return to power in 2021 marks a new attempt to implement this same model. Why have such governments with such radically different ideologies failed and are there models of…
More than the West and the Rest
Dividing the history of world orders into dominant civilizations misses the diversity of powers that have upheld regional and global stability in different eras
Eingegangene Bücher
Afghanistan
Nomads and States in Comparative Perspective
Introduction
Afghanistan's Arduous Search for Stability
What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics
A fghanistan
Afghanistan's estimated population of thirty million people is divided into six major ethnic groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimaq, and Turkman. The population outside these groups constitutes a much smaller proportion and consists of Baluch, Pashai, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arab, Qirghiz, Qizilbash, Gujur and Brahui. Thirty different language communities have been identified in Afghanistan, and multilingualism is common. Dari (Persian) and Pash…
Alfred J. Rieber.The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands
Journal Article Alfred J. Rieber.The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War. Get access Alfred J. Rieber. The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 640. $36.99. Thomas J. Barfield Thomas J. Barfield Boston University [email protected] Search for other wor…
Weapons of the Not So Weak in Afghanistan
Afghans Look at 2014
While many Afghans are highly ambivalent about the presence of foreign forces in their country, they fear a return to civil war even more
Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History
The analysis of political organization in Afghanistan is clouded by a number of myths (unconquerable, ungovernabale and graveyard of empires) that are contradicted by the facts. Historically Afghanistan was peacefully governed by a wide variety of conquerors and native dynasties, but all used combinations of direct and indirect rule to create stable polities. They also relied on theories of political legitimacy that vested authority in ruling eli…
Afghan Endgames
Shari‘a in Afghanistan
The Afghan population as a whole sees shari‘a as a set of Islamic rules and practices that also reflects national traditions and mores. This perspective mixes orthodox Islamic laws with local customs and assumes that the two could never be in conflict. Rural Afghans in particular presume their customary practices must naturally be in accord with Islamic principles. Their belief that shari‘a principles are the foundation of government and social l…
Afghanistan
B ringing M ore E ffective G overnance to A fghanistan
The Roots of Failure in Afghanistan
Improving the situation in Afghanistan remains as much a political and economic task as a military one
Culture and Customs of Afghanistan * by Hafizullah Emadi * Afghanistan
Journal Article Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah EmadiAfghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam Get access Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah Emadi (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 286 pp. Price HB £28.99. ISBN 0–313–33089–1.Afghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), 336 pp. Price PB £12.99. ISBN 1–860–64846–0. Thomas Barfield Thomas Barfield Boston University Search…
First Steps
For [Hamid] Karzai, winning a nationwide plebiscite made him the first elected leader in Afghan history and legitimized his government.... But his electoral victory will prove hollow unless he succeeds in using this window of opportunity to permanently change the dynamic of Afghan politics
Problems in Establishing Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been called a "highway of conquest," the pivot of Central Asia that led armies to India and Iran, to the rich lands of the Transoxiana and the borders of China. Since the beginning of recorded history, its territory has fallen victim to waves of conquerors and been part of much larger empires. Indeed, while each ethnic group in the country can claim some periods of glorious history, none can make an absolute indigenous claim to th…
Chapter 4. Archaeology as Anthropology of the Long Term
Diccionario de Antropologia
Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations
This volume examines the circumstances that brought about the rise of the Mongolian empire. Twelfth-century Asia and the tribal politics of Inner Asia are examined on macro and micro levels. The study concentrates on the Keraits, one of the most powerful tribal peoples of Inner Asia during Chinggis Khan's early rise to power and one of the greatest losers in the ensuing political realignment. The Kerait, who gave rise to the legend of Prester Joh…
Afghanistan rising
"Afghanistan rising: Islamic law and statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires." The Historian, 84(1), pp. 75–76
Frontiers of faith
The Dictionary of Anthropology
Preface. How to Use the Dictionary. List of Contributors. Dictionary Entries A--Z. Bibliography
Problems in Establishing Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been called a "highway of conquest," the pivot of Central Asia that led armies to India and Iran, to the rich lands of the Transoxiana and the borders of China. Since the beginning of recorded history, its territory has fallen victim to waves of conquerors and been part of much larger empires. Indeed, while each ethnic group in the country can claim some periods of glorious history, none can make an absolute indigenous claim to th…
Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations
This volume examines the circumstances that brought about the rise of the Mongolian empire. Twelfth-century Asia and the tribal politics of Inner Asia are examined on macro and micro levels. The study concentrates on the Keraits, one of the most powerful tribal peoples of Inner Asia during Chinggis Khan's early rise to power and one of the greatest losers in the ensuing political realignment. The Kerait, who gave rise to the legend of Prester Joh…
B ringing M ore E ffective G overnance to A fghanistan
The Hsiung-nu Imperial Confederacy
Nomadic states in Inner Asia were generated by external relations with state societies. Because the Hsiung-nu state could not have supported itself by exploiting the relatively undifferentiated and extensive pastoral economy, the state hierarchy was financed by exploiting the resources available from outside of the steppe. The nomads on the steppe were organized into a powerful military force that was used to systematically exploit the Chinese ec…
Buzkashi
Frontiers of faith
Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History
The analysis of political organization in Afghanistan is clouded by a number of myths (unconquerable, ungovernabale and graveyard of empires) that are contradicted by the facts. Historically Afghanistan was peacefully governed by a wide variety of conquerors and native dynasties, but all used combinations of direct and indirect rule to create stable polities. They also relied on theories of political legitimacy that vested authority in ruling eli…
Culture and Customs of Afghanistan * by Hafizullah Emadi * Afghanistan
Journal Article Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah EmadiAfghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam Get access Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah Emadi (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 286 pp. Price HB £28.99. ISBN 0–313–33089–1.Afghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), 336 pp. Price PB £12.99. ISBN 1–860–64846–0. Thomas Barfield Thomas Barfield Boston University Search…
Ethnology
The Hsiung-nu Imperial Confederacy
Nomadic states in Inner Asia were generated by external relations with state societies. Because the Hsiung-nu state could not have supported itself by exploiting the relatively undifferentiated and extensive pastoral economy, the state hierarchy was financed by exploiting the resources available from outside of the steppe. The nomads on the steppe were organized into a powerful military force that was used to systematically exploit the Chinese ec…
Buzkashi
Afghan Alternatives
Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East. Morris Silver
The Perilous Frontier
The Perilous Frontier
Peace, War, and Trade along the Great Wall
The Centrality of Central Asia
Afghanistan
Nomads in Central Asia
The Afghan Morass
Essay| January 01 1996 The Afghan Morass Thomas Barfield Thomas Barfield Thomas Barfield is chairman of the department of anthropology at Boston University. He is the author of The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in Transition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981) and coauthor, with Albert Szabo, of Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). Search for other works…
The Dictionary of Anthropology
Preface. How to Use the Dictionary. List of Contributors. Dictionary Entries A--Z. Bibliography
Diccionario de Antropologia
Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations
This volume examines the circumstances that brought about the rise of the Mongolian empire. Twelfth-century Asia and the tribal politics of Inner Asia are examined on macro and micro levels. The study concentrates on the Keraits, one of the most powerful tribal peoples of Inner Asia during Chinggis Khan's early rise to power and one of the greatest losers in the ensuing political realignment. The Kerait, who gave rise to the legend of Prester Joh…
Chapter 4. Archaeology as Anthropology of the Long Term
Problems in Establishing Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been called a "highway of conquest," the pivot of Central Asia that led armies to India and Iran, to the rich lands of the Transoxiana and the borders of China. Since the beginning of recorded history, its territory has fallen victim to waves of conquerors and been part of much larger empires. Indeed, while each ethnic group in the country can claim some periods of glorious history, none can make an absolute indigenous claim to th…
First Steps
For [Hamid] Karzai, winning a nationwide plebiscite made him the first elected leader in Afghan history and legitimized his government.... But his electoral victory will prove hollow unless he succeeds in using this window of opportunity to permanently change the dynamic of Afghan politics
Culture and Customs of Afghanistan * by Hafizullah Emadi * Afghanistan
Journal Article Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah EmadiAfghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam Get access Culture and Customs of AfghanistanBy Hafizullah Emadi (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 286 pp. Price HB £28.99. ISBN 0–313–33089–1.Afghanistan: a Modern HistoryBy Angelo Rasanayagam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), 336 pp. Price PB £12.99. ISBN 1–860–64846–0. Thomas Barfield Thomas Barfield Boston University Search…
The Roots of Failure in Afghanistan
Improving the situation in Afghanistan remains as much a political and economic task as a military one
Afghanistan
B ringing M ore E ffective G overnance to A fghanistan
Afghans Look at 2014
While many Afghans are highly ambivalent about the presence of foreign forces in their country, they fear a return to civil war even more
Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History
The analysis of political organization in Afghanistan is clouded by a number of myths (unconquerable, ungovernabale and graveyard of empires) that are contradicted by the facts. Historically Afghanistan was peacefully governed by a wide variety of conquerors and native dynasties, but all used combinations of direct and indirect rule to create stable polities. They also relied on theories of political legitimacy that vested authority in ruling eli…
Afghan Endgames
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