Fragments of the Afghan Frontier - Benjamin Hopkins - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199327447 - May 31, 2011
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Benjamin Hopkins
Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

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Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West, this area and its relationship to the world remains poorly understood in the West's popular imagination. Through the construction of a collage of historical narratives and intense ethnographic encounters, Marsden and Hopkins argue that the simplistic stereotypes and tropes that all too often masquerade as knowledge about the Frontier not only conceal a more complex reality, but are also a source of the problems that local and international actors alike face there. Not some simple isolated depot of radical terrorists or instrumental tribesmen, the Frontier is a space of richly textured meaning, constructed through a history of movement of its inhabitants and their understanding of the world beyond. Fragments of the Afghan Frontier offers a corrective to simplistic understanding both of the region's history and its current realities, leaving the reader with a deeper understanding of the ever-evolving complexity of this globally significant region.

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Released May 31, 2011
ISBN13 9780199327447
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   512 g
Language English  

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