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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1 The Challenge of Translocal Ethnography
- 2 Locating Hindu Sindhis: Roots and Routes of Diaspora
- 3 Sindhi Cosmopolitans
- 4 Sindwork, ca 1860 to the Present
- 5 Localities and Histories
- 6 The Meaning of Corporacy
- 7 Cosmopolitans in Business
- 8 Towards an Integrative Model of Commerce and Diaspora
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations.