M. Jamil Hanifi, PhD.
 NAME: M. Jamil Hanifi
PLACE OF BIRTH: Sorkhab, Logar Province, Afghanistan
CIVIL STATUS: Married, U. S. Citizen
ADDRESS: 4330 Heartwood Road
Okemos, Michigan 48864
Telephone: (517) 333-0430
Email: hanifi@msu.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph. D., Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1969.
M. A., Political Science, Michigan State University, 1962.
B. Sc., Social Science, Michigan State University, 1960.
Baccalaureate Diploma (with honors), Ghazi High School, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1954.
LANGUAGES:
Comprehensive reading, speaking, and writing fluency in Farsi/Dari, Paxtu (native languages). Good reading ability in Arabic, Russian, Tajiki (in Cyrillic), and Urdu.
RESEARCH AND WRITING INTERESTS:
Socio-cultural Anthropology and the History of the Middle East, Central and South Asia (especially Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan), North America.
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION:
Part-time teaching, Anthropology, The University of Michigan-Dearborn,1993-2003. Lansing Community College, 1990-present), Adjunct Research Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 1990-present.
Research, writing and independent scholarship partially supported by the
United States National Academy of Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Institute for Afghanistan Studies. (see below under research experience), 1982-2006.
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 1969-1982.
Fulbright Visiting Professor and Consultant in Anthropology, Mindanao State University, Philippines, 1976-1977.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, 1968-1969.
Preceptor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1966-1968.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, 2006-2008.
Advisory Board, Afghanistan Digital Library, New York University, 2003-present.
Associate Member, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, 1987-present.
Member, American Anthropological Association, 1967-present.
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1970-present.
Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America, 1982-present.
Member, International Society for Iranian Studies, 1996-present.
President, Afghanistan Studies Association in the United States, 1975.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Fellowship, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies for producing annotations and analyses of the Salnama-ye Kabul, The Kabul Annual, 1932-1955. 2006.
Ethnographic research among migrants from Afghanistan in the United States, 1990- present and in Peshawar and vicinity, Pakistan, December 1996-May 1997. Private funding.
Ethnological research on the “History and Cultural Features of the Dorani State in Afghanistan, 1747-1978”. Funded by a Fellowship (FB-26298-88) for Independent Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities. January-September 1988. Included ethnographic and archival research in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan-SSR.
Ethnological research in Tajikistan-SSR, June-August, 1983. Sponsored and funded by the United States National Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Ethnological research in Peshawar, Pakistan. Summer 1980. Funded by Northern Illinois University.
Ethnological research in Tajikistan-SSR, May-July, 1978. Sponsored and funded by the United States National Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Ethnological research in Tajikistan-SSR, March-May, 1977. Funded and sponsored by the (US) International Research and Exchange Board and the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Ethnographic research among the Maranao Muslims of the Philippines, October 1976-March 1977. Funded and sponsored by a Fulbright Senior Fellowship.
Ethnographic research among Paxtun migrants in northern California, Summer 1973. Funded by Northern Illinois University.
Ethnographic research in the village of Kamari, Kabul Province, Afghanistan, Summer 1970. Funded by the American Philosophical Society and Northern Illinois University.
| PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2004 Editor, special issue on Afghanistan. Iranian Studies 37(2).
(author’s preface and an article [see below under articles)
1982 Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan, Fourth Edition Revised.
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press. Pp. xv+545.
1976 Historical and Cultural Dictionary of Afghanistan. Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press. Pp. viii+141.
Articles:
Jerga. Encyclopaedia Iranica (in press).
2007 Jabbar Khel. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume 12: 310-312.
2005 Interrogating Conventional Wisdom About Terrorism,
Anthropology News, September 2005, p.7.
2004a Editing the Past: Colonial Production of Hegemony Through the
Loya Jerga in Afghanistan. Iranian Studies 37(2): 299-322.
2004b What Caused the Collapse of the State Infra-Structure of
Afghanistan, Anthropology News, January, p. 6-7.
2004c Helmand River (Geography). Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Volume 11:170-171.
2002 Ghorband. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 11: 137-138.
2001 Ghalzi. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 10: 670-672.
2000 Gandapur. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 10: 266-267.
2000 Gandapur, Sher Mohammad Khan. Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Volume 10:267.
Foreign Policy of Afghanistan. Encyclopaedia Iranica
(supplement).
Gandomak, Treaty of. Encyclopaedia Iranica (supplement)
1982 Cultural Values and Family Relations in Kamari, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Journal 9(2):1-7.
1977 Philippine Studies in the USSR: Some General Observations.
Philippine Studies Bulletin 6(1): 15-17.
1976 An Ideal Model for the Analysis of Sociocultural Processes
in ‘Purposive’ Social Systems. Eastern Anthropologist
29(4): 353-360.
1974 a The Central Asian City and its Role in Cultural Transformation. Afghanistan Council, Asia Society, No. 6, Pp. 1-10.
1974b An Appraisal of Formal and Structural Kinship Analysis. International
Journal of the Sociology of the Family 4(2):53-57.
1974c Child Rearing Patterns Among Pushtuns of Afghanistan. Internationa
l Journal of the Sociology of the Family1(1):53-57.
Chapters in Books:
2005 Foreword. Real Men Keep Their Word: Tales From Kabul,
Afghanistan. A Selection of Akram Osman’s Dari Short Stories.
Translated by Arley Loewen. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
Pp. vii-xvii.
2004 Preface to the special issue on Afghanistan. Iranian Studies 37
(2):197-198.
2000 Anthropology and the Representations of Recent Migrations from
Afghanistan. In Rethinking Refugee and Displacement: Selected
Papers on Refugees and Immigrants, Volume VIII, edited by
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Dianna J. Shandy. Arlington, VA:
American Anthropological Association. Pp. 291-321.
1982 Islam in Contemporary Afghanistan. In The Crescent in the East.
R. Israeli, ed. Pp. 23-35. London: Curzon Press.
1978 The Family in Afghanistan. In The Family in Asia. P. D. Bardis
and M. S. Das, eds. Pp. 47-69. London: George Allen and Unwen.
1979 Cultural Diversity, Conflicting Ideologies, and Transformational
Processes in Afghanistan. In The Nomadic Alternative. W.
Weissleder, ed. Pp. 387-396. The Hague: Mouton.
1976 Pre-industrial Kabul: Its Structure and Function in Transformational Processes in Afghanistan. In The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment.
Amos Rapaport, ed. Pp. 441-451. The Hague: Mouton.
1971 Research Report on City-Village Symbiosis: Ecological
Adaptations in Afghanistan. In Annual Report of the American
Philosophical Society, Pp. 413-414. Philadelphia.
Book Reviews:
2006a War and Migration: Social Networks and Economic Strategies
of the Hazaras of Afghanistan, 2004, by Alessandro Monsutti.
Middle East Journal 60(2): 369-370.
2006b The Afghans, 2002, by Willem Vogelsang. Iranian Studies
39(1): 124-125.
2004 Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad, 2002, by
David B. Edwards. American Anthropologist 106(1): 185-187.
2002a Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-29:
King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama, 1999, by Senzil K. Nawid.
Middle East Journal 56(4): 704-705.
2002b Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan,
2001, by Michael Griffin; Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil &
Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2000, by Ahmed Rashid. Middle
East Journal 56(2):329-332.
2000a State and Tribe in Nineteenth Century Afghanistan, 1997, by
Christine Noelle. Iranian Studies 33(3-4): 488-492.
2000b State, Society and Democracy in Morocco: The Limits of
Associative Life, 1998, by Azzedine Layachi. Middle East Journal
54(1):135-137.
1988 Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan, 1986, by Olivier Roy.
The Muslim World 79(2): 151-152.
1985 Religion and Politics in Muslim Society Order and Conflict in Pakistan, 1983, by Akbar S. Ahmed. American Anthropologist 83(1):195-197.
1981 Low Key Politics: Local Level Leadership and Change in the
Middle East, 1983, by Richard T. Antoun. American Anthropologist
83(1):159.
1979 Images and Self Images: Male and Female in Morocco, 1978, by
D. H. Dwyer. Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Sciences, volume 444, July, Pp. 151-152.
1976 Afghanistan, 1973, by Louis Dupree. American Anthropologist 78(2):423-424.
“Tribe and Community Among the Ghilzai Pushtuns (Anthropos, Volume 70), 1975, by Jon W. Anderson. Newsletter of the Afghanistan Council, Asia Society 4(3):20-21.
1972 a Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the
Dinka of the Sudan, 1971, by F. M. Deng. American Anthropologist
74 (6):1430-1431.
1972b The Urban Experience and Folk Tradition, 1971, edited by
A. Paredes and E. J. Stekert. Urban Anthropology 1(2):54-55.
1971 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (two volumes), 1970, edited by Louise E. Sweet. American Anthropologist 73(4):861-862.
1970 A Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of
Chitral, Part Two, 1969, by Schuyler Jones. America
Anthropologist 72(4):913-914.
1969 The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1969, by Vartan
Gregorian. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Sciences, volume 433, September, Pp. 288-289.
1968a Contemporary Change in Traditional Societies (Volume 2), 1968,
edited by Julian H. Steward. Journal of Developing Areas 3(2):252-
255.
1968b Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia,
1968, by Clifford Geertz. Journal of Developing Areas 3(3):
447- 448.
1968c Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968, by Samuel Huntington.
Journal of Developing Areas 3(3):422-423.
1968d An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious
Writings of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din “al-Afghani”, 1968, by Nikki R.
Keddie, The Asian Student, December 15, p. 8.
1962 Afghanistan: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture, 1962, by
Donald N. Wilber The Asian Student, December 15, p. 8.
Brief Notes and Commentaries:
2005 In Response to Robert L. Canfield. American Anthropologist
107(3):552-553.
2002a Taleban—not Taliban. Anthropology News. April, p. 3.
2002b Tabsera bar “Naqsh-e yak moshawer-e khub” (Farsi, Comments
on the “role of a good advisor”). Omaid Weekly (Alexandria, VA),
No. 516, p. 3.
2001 Olympics: Rigged? Anthropology News. January, pp. 3-4.
2000 (Post)Modern Ethnography: Science or Colonialism.
Anthropology News. December, p. 3.
1996 Lilam-e osar-e bastani-ye Afghanistan (Farsi, the auction of
ancient artifacts of Afghanistan). Omaid Weekly (Alexandria, VA),
No, 204, pp. 7 & 12.
1989 Reply to Ahmed. American Anthropologist 90 (1):166-167.
1987 Rejoinder to Ahmed. American Anthropologist 89(2):453-454.
1968 (Comment), The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in
Ethnography, by D. Nash and R. Wintrob. Current Anthropology
13(5):335-336.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Afghanistan Government Scholarship for B. Sc. and M. A. degrees, Michigan State University, 1956-1962.
Over the last three decades I have organized, participated in and/or presented approximately twenty five professional symposia, panels, and sessions under the auspices of the Afghanistan Studies Association (USA), American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Middle East Studies Association, Mindanao State University (Philippines), Society for Iranian Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Tajik-SSR Academy of Sciences (Dushanbe), University of Chicago, University of Illinois-Urbana, University of Montreal, Western Kentucky University, Northern Illinois University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of the Philippines, University of Peshawar (Pakistan), University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Asian Development Bank.
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