Muslims in motion: transnational life in northern Pakistan

Authors

  • Magnus Marsden University of London. Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Abstract

This article focuses on what at first glance seem to three different scales of mobility, which are all important dimensions of people's daily life that speaks khowar and they are shi'a ssmai'li o sunnis from Chitral in northern Pakistan. It seeks to demonstrate whether these differential mobility practices are framed in relation to "popular understanding [Chitrali] of the global".

Keywords:

Pakistán, migration, mobility, scales, etnicity

Author Biography

Magnus Marsden, University of London. Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Ph. D. in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University.

Professor of Social Anthropology. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Department of Anthropology and Sociology