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Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fatima MojaddediPublish date:3/24/2026Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478038535ISBN-10:1478038535UPC:9781478038535Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MovementsBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Middle Eastern Studies, Critical TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCSE9C775C

Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours

Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarized violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarized violence, economic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478038535ISBN-10:1478038535UPC:9781478038535Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MovementsBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Middle Eastern Studies, Critical TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCSE9C775C
Fatima Mojaddedi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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