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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : People

NAMEM. Nazif Shahrani

  • Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Professor, Department of Anthropology
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A. at University of Washington, Seattle, 1972, Anthropology
  • Ph.D. at University of Washington, Seattle, 1976, Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism
  • State and society, Islamic movements
  • Identity politics
  • Social change and modernization
  • Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia

Contact Information

shahrani@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 102
(812) 855-5993

Courses Recently Taught

  • People and Cultures of the Middle East
  • Representations of Islam and Muslims in Anthropological Literature
  • Islam & Politics in Central Asia & The Middle East
  • Post-Taliban Afghan/Global Terror
  • Muslim States and Societies

Publication Highlights

  • The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, pp. xli + 302, 2002.
  • Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield, eds. Berkley, Institute of International Studies, University of California, pp. xiv + 394, (Research Series #57), 1984.
  • The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation of Closed Frontiers, Seattle, University of Washington Press, pp. xxiii + 263, 1979.