In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Kristian Berg Harpviken About Lived Islam in the Frontier Regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. House of Literature, April 28, 2011

Abstract

In this chapter, Prof. Magnus Marsden of Sussex University discusses his work on ‘lived Islam in the Frontier Regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan’ with Sindre Bangstad and Kristian Berg Harpviken (Peace Research Institute of Oslo, PRIO). Marsden reveals that he started out as an English teacher in a small village whose inhabitants were Sunnis and Ismailis in the Pakistani province of Chitral whilst doing undergraduate degrees in anthropology at Cambridge University in the UK in the 1990s. Marsden also reflects on his more recent ethnographic work on Afghan trade networks across Central Asia.