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Pierre Centlivres, Professor Emeritus, is former Director of the Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He is an anthropologist with field experience in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Europe. His research interests include questions of identity, ethnicity, refugees, diasporas, and popular imagery in Islam.The text is a modified and reduced version of “The Controversy over the Buddhas of Bamiyan,” paper presented at the SAMAJ Conference on “Outraged communities: investigating the politicisation of emotions in South Asia,” September 25-26, 2008, Paris.
Originally posted December 2012
Originally posted December 2009
The 2001 destruction of the two giant Buddhas in Bamiyan is, by far, the most spectacular attack against the historical and cultural heritage of Afghanistan committed during the country’s recent period of turmoil.
Originally posted December 2009
This is the sixth and final volume in the 1979-2009 special series of MEI Viewpoints.
