Un Bazar d'Asie Centrale: Forme et Organisation du Bazar de Tashqurghan (Afghanistan)
Softcover
1972 · Wiesbaden
by Centlivres, Pierre
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1972. Softcover. Good, clean and tight but with slight sunning to front cover edges and slight warping to bottom corner of book. Grey wraps with black lettering; 226 pp. text with 53 plates. An excellent coverage of the Tashqurghan Bazaar of in northern Afghanistan, before it was destroyed by the Soviet Union; includes geography, morphology, administration, commerce, professions, the arts, economics, religion, folklore, ethnicities, innovation and change and much more; with a pull-out map, glossary, bw photographs, tables and charts, and more. Very thorough and enlightening. Text in French. (There are hopes and plans, currently, to rebuild the bazaar to its former glory.) This work is a dissertation-thésis by Centlivres from Université de Neuchâtel. (Inventory #: 112578)