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Beyond Swat

Beyond Swat


en Hardback – 26 mar 2013
Beyond Swat readdresses Fredrik Barth's seminal work Political Leadership among Swat Pathans, and the reactions it sparked, in relationship to contemporary developments in Swat and the wider Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier region. It explores the relevance of these debates to understanding the key dynamics affecting the region and its people.
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ISBN-13: 9781849042062
ISBN-10: 1849042063
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 149 x 225 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Notă biografică

Benjamin Hopkins is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University, author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan, and co-editor, with Magnus Marsden, of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier. Magnus Marsden is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology with Reference to South and Central Asia, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has spent 15 years conducting research in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. His publications include Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier (2005) and, as co-editor with Benjamin Hopkins, Fragments of the Afghan Frontier.

Recenzii

'This is an impressive volume, important for its focus on the dangerous, and all too pervasive, tendency of journalists and academics to sideline class and politics in favour of cultural stereotypes. Instead, these deeply informed articles by expert historians and anthropologists confirm over and over the importance of taking into account, as the editors put it, "the common human modes of behaving" that are characteristic of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, both historically and in the present.' - Barbara D. Metcalf, author of Husain Ahmad Madani: Islam and the Jihad for India's Freedom and editor of Islam in South Asia in Practice 'Easily readable and enjoyable, this book offers fresh and theoretically rich perspectives on a number of concerns that go well beyond Swat. - Exemplary.' - Marta Bolognani, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol. 'This is a most comprehensive study of the world's most notable flashpoint - Afghanistan and its neighbouring region. Using the 1959 seminal study by Fredrik Barth as a counterpoint, this collection of essays brings classical anthropological and historical portrayals into conversation with fresh research conducted in today's world. Rich in detail, this volume is a nuanced and genuinely insightful study into the most salient themes of this region: the relationship of the Taliban and Islam; the problematic notion of 'tribe'; relations between class, patronage and the State; the importance of trade in creating new moral and cultural worlds; and the continuity and change that this part of the world has witnessed over the past 200 years. - If you want genuine understanding and erudition about Pashtuns and Afghanistan, this book is for you.' - Mukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics and Political Science