Book launch in collaboration with the Afghanistan Society
Wednesday 10 June 2026, doors opening 6:30 for a 7pm start of the talk
This is an in Person event at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT London). Book your ticket here.
Join the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Afghanistan society for the launch of two books by Richard Tapper and Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper.
Afghan Village Voices is a collection of remarkable stories, folktales, and conversations recorded during field research in north-central Afghanistan in the early 1970s. The Piruzai of Afghanistan: a visual ethnography (in association with the White Horse Press) reproduces 380 photographs from the same research. These photographs tell a seasonal story of work, play, weddings, and the long journey to summer pastures. Reflecting what people wanted to record about their lives, both books offer a record of experiences just before fifty years of war and other disasters which have shaped Afghanistan.
Join Richard Tapper, and panellists Veronica Doubleday and Orzala Ashraf Nemat for a discussion of the power of these stories and photographs, their role as a historical record, and their contemporary relevance.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Afghan Village Voices is published by I.B. Taurus (an imprint of Bloomsbury) and can be purchased here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afghan-village-voices-9780755600878/
The Piruzai of Afghanistan: a visual ethnography is published in association with the White Horse Press and can be purchased here: The White Horse Press