Shafqat Hussain is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has worked on environmental conservation and rural development in remote regions of Pakistan, where he also runs an award-winning snow leopard conservation project. He lives in New Haven, CT.
“In this important work, Hussain provides a comprehensive yet
fine-grained picture of the engagement of the region of Hunza with
the outside world. I am an admirer of Hussain’s many articles and
consider him to be an important younger voice in environmental
anthropology and Himalayan ethnohistory.”—William R. Pinch,
Professor of History, Wesleyan University, and Associate Editor,
History and Theory
*William R. Pinch*
“Remoteness and Modernity makes an original contribution regarding
the politics of ‘remoteness’ in a place where they have played out
in a particularly contradictory, ironic fashion.”—David McDermott
Hughes, author of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the
Politics of Belonging
*David McDermott Hughes*
“Modern fascination with distant lands is skillfully examined in
this study . . . always lucid, eloquent, and very insightful, even
as it is theoretically accomplished and vitally important to new
directions in research on South Asia.”—K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale
University
*K. Sivaramakrishnan*
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