Home > News > Local Power and Transnational Resources: An Anthropological Perspective on Rural Rehabilitation in Afghanistan

Local Power and Transnational Resources: An Anthropological Perspective on Rural Rehabilitation in Afghanistan

A working paper by Alessandro Monsutti

UCLA Asia Institute Program on Central Asia Working Paper no. 2. Published: 2009

Prepared for the conference, Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills, held at UCLA November 17, 2008.

Download File: Monsutti_CAI_2.pdf

Talk With the Taliban?
Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.