'Traders or Smugglers?' by Magnus Marsden

Post-fieldwork reflections on the proliferation of ethnic stereotypes in reporting by Global Witness (2016)

Magnus critically assesses the new geopolitics and history of  Afghani trade in lapis-lazuli. 

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