Shafqat hussain biography sample
Shafqat Hussain is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.!
Shafqat Hussain is a peacekeeper of a different kind. High up in the mountains of northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, the trained economist and environmental anthropologisthelps to ease the conflict between the farmers and the big cats who prey on their herds.
Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past.
The region, which spans 70,000 sq km and has the highest concentration of mountain peaks in the world, is home to about a million herders, subsistence farmers and villagers, who rear sheep, goats, yaks and cows as their main source of food and livelihood.
However, the people share the mountains with the magnificent, and vulnerable, snow leopard, which attacks and eats their livestock.
The herders used to retaliate by killing the big cats. “This is ecologically a very harsh area, so eking out a subsistence is very difficult.
Pastoral people have a special rivalry with predators because they represent a threat to their livelihood,” Dr Hussain, 53, explains.
“These people are really poor