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Authored Books

Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin (2012) Fragments of the Afghan Frontier. London: Hurst and Co..

Marsden, Magnus (2005) Living Islam: Muslim religious experience in Pakistan's North West Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Retsikas, Kostas and Marsden, Magnus, eds. (2018) HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (Special Section) – Volume 8, Issue 3 (Winter 2018): Invisible Hands of Life: Alternate Modes of Prosperity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin, eds. (2013) Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. London: Hurst and Co. ; Columbia University Press.

Marsden, Magnus and Retsikas, Kostas, eds. (2012) Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Dordecht: Springer. (Muslims in Global Societies Series)

Marsden, Magnus and Khan, Ali, eds. (2011) Islam and society in Pakistan: anthropological perspectives. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Marsden, Magnus (2013) 'Being a diplomat on the frontier of south and central Asia : trade and traders in Afghanistan.' In: Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin, (eds.), Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. London: Hurst/Columbia University Press.

Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin (2013) 'Rethinking Swat: Militancy and Modernity along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier.' In: Hopkins, Benjamin and Marsden, Magnus, (eds.), Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. London: Hurst/Columbia University Press.

Retsikas, Kostas (2012) 'Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia.' In: Marsden, Magnus and Retsikas, Kostas, (eds.), Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Dordecht: Springer, pp. 119-138. (Muslims in Global Societies Series, vol 6.)

Marsden, Magnus and Retsikas, Kostas (2012) 'Introduction: Articulating Islam.' In: Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Dordecht: Springer. (Muslims in Global Societies Series)

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Anthropological Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan - A Comparisson.' In: Marsden, Magnus and Retsikas, Kostas, (eds.), Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Dordrecht: Springer. (Muslims in Global Societies Series)

Marsden, Magnus (2012) ''For Badakhshan - the country without borders!': Village cosmopolitans, urban-rural networks and the post-cosmopolitan city in Tajikistan.' In: Humphrey, Caroline and Skvirskaja, Vera, (eds.), A Post-Cosmopolitan City? New York: Berghahn, pp. 217-239. (Space and place ; v. 9)

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Southwest and Central Asia: Comparisson, Integration or Beyond?' In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. Sage.

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Deobandi Islam.' In: Chatterjee, Joya and Washbrook, David, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Diaspora. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge Handbooks)

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Responding to the Taliban: Comparative Perspectives from Northern Afghanistan and Pakistan.' In: Deol, Jeevan and Kazmi, Zaheer, (eds.), Contextualising Jihadi Thought. Hurst and Co.

Marsden, Magnus (2011) 'Introduction: Anthropology, Islam and Pakistan.' In: Marsden, Magnus and Khan, Ali, (eds.), Islam and Society in Pakistan: Anthropological Perspectives. Karachi: Oxford University Press, xi-xxxiv.

Marsden, Magnus (2010) 'Muslim village intellectuals: the life of the mind in northern Pakistan.' In: Mines, Diane and Lamb, Sarah, (eds.), Everyday life in South Asia. Second Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 263-275.

Marsden, Magnus (2010) 'Possession in an Islamist Valley: Spirits, Islamists and Love in Northern Pakistan.' In: Ferrari, Fabrizio M., (ed.), Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing. New York: Routledge, pp. 35-47. (Routledge South Asian Religion Series)

Humphrey, Caroline, Skvirskaja, Vera and Marsden, Magnus (2008) 'Cosmopolitanism and the city: interaction and coexistence in Bukhara.' In: Mayaram, S., (ed.), The Other Global City. New York: Routledge.

Journal Article

Retsikas, Kostas and Marsden, Magnus (2018) 'Alternate Modes of Prosperity.' HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8 (3). pp. 596-609.

Marsden, Magnus and Ibanez-Tirado, Diana (2015) 'Repertoires of Family Life and the Anchoring of Afghan Trading Networks in Ukraine.' History and Anthropology, 26 (2). pp. 145-164.

Marsden, Magnus (2012) 'Fatal Embrace: trading in hospitality on the frontiers of South and Central Asia.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18 (s1). pp. 117-130.

Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin (2011) 'Ten Years in, Afghan Myths Live On.' The New York Times.

Marsden, Magnus (2011) 'Militante Kosmopolitter.' Klassekampen.

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (s1). S57-S75.

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'Talking the talk: Debating debate in northern Afghanistan.' Anthropology Today, 25 (2). pp. 20-24.

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'Kosmopolitisme aan de Pakistaanse grens.' Een keuze uit 10 jaar ISIM review = Booklet '10 Years ISIM Review'.

Marsden, Magnus (2008) 'Women, politics and Islamism in northern Pakistan.' Modern Asian Studies, 42 (2/3). pp. 405-429.

Marsden, Magnus (2008) 'Lords of a Dubai Labour Camp: Pakistani migrants in the Gulf.' Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies (49). pp. 5-6.

Marsden, Magnus (2008) 'Muslim cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in northern Pakistan.' Journal of Asian Studies, 67 (1). pp. 213-248.

Marsden, Magnus (2007) 'All-Male Sonic Gatherings, Islamic Reform, and Masculinity in Northern Pakistan.' American Ethnologist, 34 (3). pp. 473-490.

Marsden, Magnus (2007) 'Actually existing cosmopolitanism on Pakistan’s Afghan Frontier.' ISIM Review, 19.

Marsden, Magnus (2007) 'Islam, emotion and authority in northern Pakistan.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 41 (1). pp. 41-80.

Marsden, Magnus (2007) 'Love and elopement in northern Pakistan.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (1). pp. 91-108.

Marsden, Magnus (2005) 'Mullahs, Migrants and Murids: New Developments in the Study of Pakistan A Review Article.' Modern Asian Studies, 39 (4). pp. 987-1010.

Marsden, Magnus (2005) 'Muslim village intellectuals: the life of the mind in northern Pakistan.' Anthropology Today, 21 (1). pp. 10-15.

Marsden, Magnus (2002) 'Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Chitral Town, northern Pakistan.' Centre of South Asian Studies Occasional Paper. pp. 1-46.

Monographs and Working Papers

Marsden, Magnus (2011) Mobile Life in Crossroads Asia.

Marsden, Magnus (2010) Opportunities and constraints in Central and South Asian trade flows: perspectives from Afghan traders in Tajikistan. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Book Reviews

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'Review of 'In Amma's Healing Room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India' by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (1). pp. 212-213.

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'Review of 'Islam and the prayer economy. History and authority in a Malian town' by Benjamin Soares.' Social Anthropology, 17 (4). pp. 508-510.

Marsden, Magnus (2009) 'Review of Zenana: 'Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building' by Laura A. Ring.' Modern Asian Studies, 44 (2). pp. 441-444.

Marsden, Magnus (2008) 'Book review of Reid, Anthony and Michael Gilsenan eds., 'Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia'.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (4). pp. 928-929.