Anna-Maria Walter has worked on gender relations, mobile phones, and changing ideas of love and marriage in the area of Gilgit for almost a decade. Her monograph Intimate Connections will be published in Rutger’s Politics of Marriage and Gender Series in 2021. She is a fellow at the University of Exeter and serves as part-time lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich. Her new research projects cover arenas of feminist partaking in pleasure and spirituality in high-altitude spaces as well as conceptions of the self through social media use.

Anna Grieser is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University. Having worked with different universities as well as the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Pakistan, she is interested in postmodern and autoethnographic approaches to ethnography, natural resources management, social mobility, ageing, as well as questions of ‘development’. Her doctoral dissertation on the waterscape of Gilgit was granted the 2017 Award of the Faculty for the Study of Culture of the LMU Munich.