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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Map -- 1 Prologue: Introducing the Piruzai -- Great Games in Afghanistan -- Afghan Turkistan: the setting -- Pashtuns come to Sar-e-pol -- The Piruzai -- The Piruzai economy -- Population growth and change -- Village life in 1971 -- The narrators -- 2 The Es'hâqzai Come North -- The move north -- From Kandahar . . . -- . . to Turkistan -- Resisting the khans -- Wazir Mahmad-gol Mohmand -- The khans in 1970 -- 3 Ethnic Politics in Sar-e-pol -- Elections -- Elections for People's Assembly 1965 -- Elections for Senate 1969 -- Elections for People's Assembly 1969 -- Ethnic Categories -- 'Afghan' and 'Fârsibân' -- Uzbeks and others -- Marrying strangers: Rangin and Golshâh Taymani -- The Runaways -- The quest in Day-kondi -- Petitioning the government in Kabul -- The fallout -- A Moral Tale of Abduction and Revenge -- 4 Tribal Politics -- Murder and Revenge -- The Piruzai Feud -- I: In the mountains -- II: At the wedding -- III: Peacemaking, marriages -- Village Factions -- Groups -- Leaders -- 'Upper' vs 'Lower' Konjek -- 5 A Shepherd's Life1 -- The Tale of the Shepherd and the Judge -- The Flocks -- The Nomad Trail -- Châ gol's first trip -- The flash-flood and the dervish -- Home -- The Pastoral Year -- Mating and lambing -- Lambs and spring grazing -- Hard work in the mountains -- Autumn and winter -- Shepherding Contracts -- Employees -- Partners -- 6 For the Animals -- Camel Care -- An Old Wolf 's Tale -- An Old Wolf's Tale -- Wolves and thieves -- The tick man -- The Tale of Nokhodak -- Expedition to the Salt-pan -- A Terrible Winter -- 7 Land: A Golden Tent-Peg -- The Value of Land -- Water Rights -- Inheritance -- 8 On the Farm -- The Tale of the Ox, the Donkey and the Hen.

In the early 1970s we made more than 100 hours of tape recordings, as part of our ethnographic fieldwork among the Piruzai, Pashtun farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists in northern Afghanistan. These village voices create a remarkable community self-portrait of a social world now lost and irretrievable. Maryam's story is the perfect exemplar of an unconventional form of auto-ethnography. Maryam was married some thirty years before, as part of a series of marriage exchanges intended to settle a feud between the two main Piruzai families. Her husband, Tuman, became village headman, a Haji, and in 1971 our host. Later, Pakiza, Tuman's second wife and Maryam's co-wife, became the bane of her life. Her account captures something of the depth and colour of people's lives. It gives voice to the ensuing silence over the past nearly fifty years and offers a radical challenge to the gendered stereotypes which have dominated the global and Afghan media during the past forty years of war and occupation.