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Cosmopolitan connections : the Sindhi diaspora, 1860-2000 /
This volume looks at a diasporic community of Indian traders. It draws on anthropological field research as well as archival sources to portray a cosmopolitan group united by ties of kinship and community which are reproduced across space through processes such as the circulation of women and family...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | International comparative social studies ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume looks at a diasporic community of Indian traders. It draws on anthropological field research as well as archival sources to portray a cosmopolitan group united by ties of kinship and community which are reproduced across space through processes such as the circulation of women and family visiting. These ties have their counterpart in the economic sphere which is characterised by sets of translocal trading linkages, credit relations, and a heightened knowledge of markets and a readiness to explore them. A model for the relation between mobility and commerce is thus explored. The book, which includes a number of maps and original photographs, is ground-breaking in that it uses the technique of 'multi-sited ethnography', in which data from different sites are juxtaposed into a broad synthesis. It is geared towards a broad audience. |
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| Notas: | Based on doctoral work conducted at the University of Cambridge between 1997 and 2001. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429408367 9781429408363 9789004140080 9004140085 1280915498 9781280915499 9786610915491 6610915490 9047406036 9789047406037 |
| ISSN: | 1568-4474 ; |