The migration process : capital, gifts, and offerings among British Pakistanis /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Werbner, Pnina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York : Berg ; Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Colección:Explorations in anthropology.
Temas:
Pakistanis > England > Manchester > Economic conditions.
Pakistanis > England > Manchester > Social life and customs.
Gifts > England > Manchester.
Pakistanais > Angleterre > Manchester > Conditions économiques.
Pakistanais > Angleterre > Manchester > Mœurs et coutumes.
Cadeaux > Angleterre > Manchester.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Gifts
Pakistanis > Economic conditions
Pakistanis > Social life and customs
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Pakistani.
Pakistanais > Manchester (GB) > Conditions économiques.
Pakistanais > Manchester (GB) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Manchester (Angleterre) > Émigration et immigration.
England > Manchester
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Part I: Capital Accumulation; 1. Chains of Migrants: Culture, Value and the Housing Market; 2. Chains of Entrepreneurs: The Production of an Enterprise Culture; Part II: The Gift Economy: Women, Gifts and Offerings; 3. Marriage, Exchange and the Reproduction of Inequality; 4. Circles of Trust: Women and the Control of Ceremonial Exchange; 5. Giving to God: The 'Naturalisation' of Ritual; 6. Circles of Trust: Multiple Domains of Exchange; 7. Circles of Trust: From Commodities to Gifts.
  • Part III: Conspicuous Giving and Public Generosity8. Hierarchical Gift Economies; 9. Wedding Rituals and the Symbolic Exchange of Substance; 10. The Organisation of Giving and Immigrant Elites; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Maps and Figures of Chapter 1; Appendix 2: Marriage; Appendix 3: Hamid's Network (Three Phases)
  • Program NDIS; Share Caste (Zat); Iftahar's Network
  • Program NDIS; Appendix 4: Symbolic Associations of Wedding Substances; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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