David B. Edwards
W. Van Alan Clark '41 Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Documentary film & visual culture
- Humanitarianism & post-conflict societies
- Near East and South Asia
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS & DOCUMENTARIES
- "Summoning Muslims: Print, Politics, and Religious Ideology in Afghanistan." Journal of Asian Studies 53(3), 1993.
- "Words in the Balance: The Poetics of Political Dissent in Afghanistan." In: D. Eickelman, ed., Russia's Muslim Frontiers, Indiana University Press, 1993.
- "Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order." Cultural Anthropology 9(3): 1-16, 1994.
- Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (University of California Press, 1996).
- "Learning from the Swat Pathans: Political Leadership in Afghanistan, 1978-97." American Ethnologist, 1999.
- Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad. (University of California Press; 2002)
- "Print Islam: Media and Religious Revolution in Afghanistan." In Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader, June Nash, ed. (Blackwell, 2005).
- Kabul Transit (2006). DVD 2007, Bullfrog Films.
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