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Honour and violence : gender, power and law in southern Pakistan /
"The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2016.
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| Colección: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: honour violence, law and power in upper Sindh
- Ghairat, karo kari and the spectacles of violence: how men and women become black
- Honour violence, law and moral power in colonial Sindh
- Karo kari, wali and family violence: cultural violence mirroring law
- Violence, kin groups and the feud: the making of frontier justice
- Mediations on the frontier: ceremonies of justice, ceremonies of faislo and the ideology of kheerkhandr
- The criminal justice and legal contests of honour: two case studies
- The sound of the silence: lives, narratives and strategies of runaway and missing women of upper Sindh
- Conclusion: Karyan Ja Kabrustan: the imaginary burial grounds for black women.