Frontier Ethnographies - Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, the volume reflects on the researchers' experiences and challenges of doing field research in frontier settings.

About the author

Nafay Choudhury is Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He has won several international prizes for his writings on legal pluralism and private governance, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize and the Asian Law and Society Association Article Award.

Annika Schmeding is a Senior Researcher at the NIOD—Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Her previous research earned theDutch National Master Thesis Prize in Asian Studies and the Leiden University Thesis Award. Her most recent publication is Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (Stanford University Press, 2023).

Product details

• Authors: Nafay Schmeding Choudhury
• Assisted by: Nafay Choudhury (Editor), Annika Schmeding (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781805397595
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-759-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Afghanistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Research methods: general, Theory and Methodology; Political and Economic Anthropology