Buzkashi. Game and power in Afghanistan

The first full-length ethnography of play ever written, published in 1982, it has been updated in two English editions, in 2003 and 2011. Now, Casa Asia He has edited and published it in Spanish. Whitney Azoy recently posted A Buzkashi Reader with ten extended stories based on first-hand experiences with the buzkashi game. A former US diplomat, four-time Fulbright scholar and retired director of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies in Kabul, Dr. Azoy currently resides in Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

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