When bamboo bloom an anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan
"When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologist's highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Long Grove, IL
Waveland Press, Inc.
c2011, 2011
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| Series: | Anthropology online
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| Collection: | Anthropology Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologist's highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a local language, exposes the searing realities of scarce access to education and health care alongside limited resources and personal loss in Kabul, Hazarajat, and Herat." - Original back cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 123 p.) |