David B. Edwards
Carl W. Vogt '58 Professor of Anthropology
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Political anthropology
- Historical anthropology
- Near East and South Asia
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- "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)
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