Nighat Said Khan is a prominent feminist activist, academic and author in Pakistan. She is the director and founder of the Applied Socio-Economic Research (ASR) Resource Centre and a founding membe
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Brian Keith Axel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures, also publishe