Professor of Anthropology

barfield@bu.edu

232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-5028

• Afghanistan and Central Asia
• Nomadic Pastoralism
• History, Anthropology, and Social Theory

Publications:

“Archaeology as Anthropology of the Long Term.” In Archaeology is Anthropology, edited by Susan Gillespie and Deborah Nichols. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, #13, pp. 41-50. (2003)

"Turk, Persian and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along its Frontiers." In Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, edited by Nikki Keddie. Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 61-88. (2002)

"Idol Threats." Religion in the News 4(2):4-7. (2001)

"The Shadow Empires: Imperial State Formation along the Chinese-Nomad Frontier." In Empires, edited by Susan E. Alcock, Terence N. D'Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, Carla M. Sinopoli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11-41. (2001)

The Dictionary of Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell (1997)

"The Afghan Morass." Current History 95(597): 38-43. (1996)

"The Devil's Horsemen: Steppe Nomadic Warfare in Historical Perspective." In Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by S.P. Reyna and R.E. Downs. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, pp. 157-182. (1994)

The Nomadic Alternative. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (1993)

Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture. With Albert Szabo. Austin: University of Texas Press. (1991)

"Tribe and State Relations: The Inner Asian Perspective." In Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, edited by Philip Khoury and Joseph Kostiner. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 153-185. (1991)

The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China. Oxford: Blackwell. (1989)

"Weak Links on a Rusty Chain: Structural Weaknesses in Afghanistan's Provincial Government." In Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan, edited by Nazif Shahrani and Robert Canfield. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, #57, pp. 170-183. (1984)

"Introduction: NOMADS--Stopped in their Tracks?" Cultural Survival Quarterly 8/1:2-5. (1984)

The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in Transition. Austin: University of Texas Press. (1981)

"The Hsiung-nu Imperial Confederacy: Organization and Foreign Policy." Journal of Asian Studies 41:45-61. (1981)