Post date: Sep 29, 2016 4:31:51 PM
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444908/fresh-air
This edition of "Fresh Air" on NPR deals with a book about Afghanistan after the American invasion. Listen for the ways in which formative anthropological models of Middle East society are implicit in the portrait of the Karzai family. Of particular interest is the way that the idea of "tribalism" is used in the discussion. Here, "tribalism" seems to refer to patron-client relationships more than segmentary social organization.