Efficacy and hierarchy: Practices in Afghanistan as an example

Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 196-247

  Canfield, Robert L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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