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Homayun Sidky

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Homayun Sidky has been promoted to professor of anthropology. He received his master’s degree in sociology from the University of Miami and holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Ohio State University. His areas of interest include the anthropology of religion, ecological anthropology, anthropological theory and the history of anthropological thought, political Islam with a focus on the Taliban and related movements, and Tibetan Buddhism.

Sidky has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Easter Island, Australia, and among the Tibetan community in northern India. The author of numerous scholarly articles and books, his most recent publications include: Haunted by the Archaic Shaman: Himalayan Jhakris and the Discourse on Shamanism (2008), War, Changing Patterns of Warfare, State Collapse and Transnational Violence in Afghanistan (2006); and Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology (2004).

Date Published: 02/20/2009
Volume: 27 Number: 22