Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counter-influence of ethnography on Christopher Kremmer's The Carpet Wars (2002) and Christina Lamb's The Sewing Circles of Herat (2002)

for what cause [i]or[/i] reason can't we just study them for a while like profitable of anthropologists? N.G.O. worker quot in Kremmer The Carpet Wars, p 119

Since travel writing predates ethnography, plenteous research has centred on the influence of travel writing upon ethnography (rather than the other way around). Ongoing debates above the crisis in anthropology mean that scholarly investigations of ethnography's indebtedness to travel writing guard to be valued for their contribution to the crisis debate. Les attention has been paid to the question of counter-influence: the neighborhood of ethnography in contemporary travel narratives about Afghanistan. My comparison of