David B. Edwards
Williams College
David B. Edwards is the James N. Lambert ’39 Professor of Anthropology at Williams College. His interests include documentary film and visual culture, humanitarianism and post-conflict societies, and the Near East and South Asia. He is the author of numerous publications including: Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (University of California Press, 1996), and Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad (University of California Press, 2002). He also directed and produced the documentary film Kabul Transit (2006).
Edwards’s videos are used in this Choices Program curriculum unit:
The United States in Afghanistan
VIDEOS
What role might the Taliban play in the future of Afghanistan?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
How did the Taliban come to power?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
What did the leaders of mujahideen groups want?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
Why did Afghans join the mujahideen?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
Why should high school students learn about Afghanistan?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
Who are you and what do you do?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
What is the significance of the death of Osama bin Laden?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
Why is there an insurgency in Afghanistan?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
What are the divisions in Afghanistan today?
- David B. Edwards
- September 12, 2011
