Kamran Asdar Ali

Kamran Asdar Ali
Kamran Asdar Ali is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan, and is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (2003); and of Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism, 1947-72 (2015).
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Mark Rushton
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