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The migration process : capital, gifts, and offerings among British Pakistanis /
This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural dimensi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York : New York :
Berg ; Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Explorations in anthropology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship and the formation of an ethnic enclave community, and explores the structure and theory of urban ritual and its place within the immigrant gift economy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 391 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371). |
| ISBN: | 9781472518484 1472518489 9781474215763 1474215769 1472518470 9781472518477 9781000184860 1000184862 |