Afghanistan: A Bibliography

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C. Heather Bleaney, María Ángeles Gallego
BRILL, 2006 - History - 398 pages
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed "Index Islamicus," both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.
 

Contents

FOREWORD by Willem Vogelsang
1
Foreign libraryresearch resources
9
TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
23
Photographic studies
31
ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOGRAPHY
45
ARTS TRADITIONAL CRAFTS
103
PERFORMING ARTS
111
EDUCATION
129
General social environmental factors
163
Cookery food culinary culture
169
ARCH OLOGY RELATED SUBJECTS
191
FOREIGN RELATIONS
209
Great Britain
331
United States of America
337
COMMUNICATIONS MASS MEDIA
345
INDEX OF NAMES 365
350

Urban life housing
135
Nomadism
146

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Heather Bleaney is Editor of the Index Islamicus which is compiled at the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London. She was previously in charge of the Documentation Unit of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, and has contributed to a number of publications on the modern Middle East. Willem Vogelsang, Ph.D. (1990), University of Groningen, is curator of Southwest and Central Asia at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands. He has published numerous books and articles on the history and archaeology of South and Southwest Asia, including The Rise and Organization of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (Brill, 1992), The Eastern Evidence (Leiden, 1992) and The Afghans (Oxford, 2002).