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Benazir Bhutto (1953‐2007)
Author(s) -
Ahmed Akbar
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00557.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , political science , history , political economy , law , sociology , politics
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007, two weeks prior to the date scheduled for the Pakistani general election, in which she would have been a leading opposition candidate. Here ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY asks Akbar S. Ahmed how anthropologists might interpret the events and Bhutto's legacy.