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Title: TRADING WORLDS
AFGHAN MERCHANTS ACROSS MODERN FRONTIERS
By: Magnus Marsden
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 184904354X
ISBN 13: 9781849043540
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Publisher: C HURST & CO PUBLISHERS LTD
Pub. date: 25 February, 2016
Edition: UK ed.
Pages: 480
Description: A remarkable anthropological study of Pashtun Afghan merchants that tells us much about how trading diasporas function in an era of globalisation.
Synopsis: Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict traders from this and other conflict regions as immoral profiteers, the cronies of warlords or international drug smugglers. It shows, rather, the active role these merchants play in an ever-more globalised political economy. Afghan merchants, the author demonstrates, forge and occupy critical eco- nomic niches, both at home and abroad: from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, to the ports of the Black Sea; and in global cities such as Istanbul, Moscow and London, the traders' activities are shaping the material and cultural lives of the di- verse populations among whom they live. Through an exploration of the life histories, trading activities and everyday experiences of these mobile merchants, Magnus Marsden shows that traders' worlds are informed by complex forms of knowledge, skill, ethical sensibility, and long-lasting human relationships that often cut across and dissolve boundaries of nation, ethnicity, religion and ideology.
Publication: UK
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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