Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199327775)

Written by anthropologists and historians with long-standing research experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as expertise in one or more of the region's languages, each chapter explores varying yet interconnected dimensions of the region's culture, society and politics over a broad span of history and their relevance to wider debates about the dynamics shaping this and other comparable 'frontier' spaces. The parallels the authors make cross temporal, as well as spatial boundaries and, in doing so, open up theoretically innovative lines of scholarly enquiry about the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier, the nature of Islamic militancy, its connections to ethnicity, class and transformations in the nature of state power, and, more generally, the relationship between anthropology and history.

Author: Magnus Marsden
ISBN-10: 0199327777
ISBN-13: 9780199327775
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/25/2012
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d