Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

Magnus Marsden and Benjamin D. Hopkins

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March, 2012
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70246-1
$35.00

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan’s northwest territories has a long and violent past. Through a collage of historical narrative and ethnographic research, Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden counter the stereotypes and simplistic assessments that obscure a more accurate picture of this frontier, at the same time exposing the web of difficulties now facing local and international actors.

This border region is anything but an isolated depot rife with radical terrorists and tribesmen. The frontier is rich with meaning, influenced by centuries of development by its inhabitants and their conceptions of those who operate outside their world. Fragments of the Afghan Frontier provides a deeper understanding of this evolving region, which grows more and more significant as the West steps up its counterterrorist campaigns.

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• International Affairs

About the Author

Benjamin D. Hopkins is an assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan. Magnus Marsden is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has spent fifteen years conducting research in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is the author of Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier.

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