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When Bamboo Bloom: An Anthropologist in Taliban's Afghanistan

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"When Bamboo Bloom is a medical anthropologis-ts highly personal ethnographic chronicle of time spent as an aid worker and community outreach trainer in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While managing to avoid notice by the Taliban herself, Patricia Omidian, an outsider but one who speaks a local language, exposes the searing realities of scarce access to education and health care alongside limited resources and personal loss in Kabul, Hazarajat, and Herat." - Back cover.

136 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

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