New Books in Islamic Studies: Comic Performance in Pakistan

In this episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Claire Pamment to discuss her book, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bh?nd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Pamment's book "centers on the Punjabi folk art of the Bh?nd, or comic performance. Pamment explores the history and present of the Bh?nd and Bh?nd artists through a thoroughly interdisciplinary lens that engages performance studies, ethnography, history, and the study of religion."