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Author Chiovenda, Andrea, author

Title Crafting masculine selves : culture, war, and psychodynamics in Afghanistan / Andrea Chiovenda
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Summary Based on five years of ethnographic research among Pashtun men in Afghanistan, this text presents a psychological study of adjustment and adaptation (or lack thereof) to cultural norms and rules of masculinity, and of how social expectations impact the subjectivity and inner lives of the protagonists. It chronicles Afghan Pashtun men's private conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalences just as much as it shows how three decades of continuous conflict have exacerbated and deepened the place and role of violence in Pashtun society, where what was considerate legitimate and justifiable behaviour in the battlefield has spilled over into everyday life among non-combatants
Notes Due to be issued in print: 2020
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2019)
Subject Pushtuns -- Afghanistan
Masculinity -- Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Psychological aspects
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Social aspects
Masculinity
Psychological aspects
Pushtuns
Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Afghanistan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190073589 (ebook)
0190073586 (ebook)