Muslim?
That's my bet.
This MIGHT be her:
Daulatzai, Anila
Grant Type
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation
Johns Hopkins U.
Status
Completed Grant
Approve Date
November 3, 2005
Project Title
Daulatzai, Anila, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid ‘Ethnography of Widowhood and Care in Kabul,’ supervised by Dr. Jane I. Guyer
ANILA DAULATZAI, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, received a grant in November 2005 to aid research on ‘Ethnography of Widowhood and Care in Kabul,’ supervised by Dr. Jane I. Guyer. This project takes the category of ‘widow’ as a site from which to address the social realities faced by the many women in Afghanistan whose husbands have disappeared or died as a result of war and prolonged conflict. The care and protection of widows occupies a special concern in Islamic societies; particular notions of care also guide the specific modes of intervention by international aid agencies within Afghan society. With respect to Afghan widows, the concept and practice of ‘care’ thus emerges as particularly salient, and provides a lens that brings into focus otherwise disparate actors and influences such as kinship, community, the legal structures of the state, and the humanitarian efforts of international aid agencies. The project circulates around three major domains of investigation: 1) subjectivities of widows in Kabul, Afghanistan; 2) notions of care as mobilized by various social institutions, and as transformed by widows; and 3) the discursive construction of the category of widowhood. This project explored the social forms and relationships created by and around widows through in-depth ethnographic research conducted over a two-year period among Afghan widows in Kabul, Afghanistan.
http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/daulatzai-anila