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Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
Nafay Choudhury and Annika Schmeding
*This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from NIOD Institute.

Chapter 1. Strategies of Survival: Navigating Kabul’s Money Bazaars
Nafay Choudhury

Chapter 2. Obligation, Failure and the Promise of Migration
Annika Schmeding

Chapter 3. A Month in Coal Country
Abhilash Medhi and Abdul Ahad Mohammadi

Chapter 4. The Protest as Field Site: The Deh Mazang Suicide Attack and the Disruption of a Movement
Melissa Chiovenda

Chapter 5. All Women Are Equal, but ‘Begum Sahibas’ Are More Equal Than Others: Exploring Opinions of Upper Middle-Class Pakistani Women about Education
Saima Khan

Chapter 6. Women’s Worlds: Vignettes and Memories of Afghanistan
Farhana Rahman

Chapter 7. Familial Frontiers: Researching with Hindustani Musicians in Kabul
Michael Lindsey

Chapter 8. Drawing on the Frontier: Sketchbook-Cum-Journals and My Positionality as an Ethnographer of the Kalasha
Tom Crowley

Chapter 9. Kashmir as Fragments of My Diary
Omer Aijazi

Conclusion: Predicaments of the “AfPak” Frontier Ethnographers
M. Nazif Shahrani

Index

Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Edited by Nafay Choudhury and Annika Schmeding

236 pages, 29 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-759-5 Hb Published (November 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-760-1 eBook