Afghanistan : Modèles anthropologiques et pacification

In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 405-411

Abstract

Olivier Roy, Afghanistan: anthropological models and pacification. The policy of pacification, waged in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1988, by the Kabul government and by the KGB, relied on an accurate, but not publicized, anthropological model, which contradicted the published analyses made by Soviet scholars, who were making use of the official ртe-peresiroika anthropological concepts. The official model relied on a substantial ist concept of ethnic group and tribe, whereas the real practice of pacification was adapted to the flexibility of the identities and of the power game among the local notables.