Author: Noah Coburn

Noah Coburn is a political anthropologist at Bennington College who focuses on local politics, violence and intervention in Afghanistan and South Asia. He is author of Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford 2011), as well as co-author of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan (Columbia 2014).

Noah Coburn

Noah Coburn is a political anthropologist at Bennington College who focuses on local politics, violence and intervention in Afghanistan and South Asia. He is author of Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford 2011), as well as co-author of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan (Columbia 2014).

(UN)GOVERNED SPACES – An exhibition by Gregory Thielker and Noah Coburn

September, 2014 / By Allegra Lab and Noah Coburn

October 28 – December 2, 2014 Opening October 28, 2014 Usdan Gallery at Bennington College One College Drive, Bennington, Vermont […]

Afghan Elections Threads

Violence, Voting and the Monopolization of Power

September, 2014 / By Noah Coburn

The following is based on edited excerpts from the introduction of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political

ARTifacts : Art Meets Anthropology (Part 2)

July, 2014 / By Noah Coburn and Aman Mojadidi

Anthropologists have traditionally been artifacts (the products of man) collectors. This is the reason why Allegra felt compelled to open