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  • Pilgrims of Love

    The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult

    de Pnina Werbner ...
    " . . . will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, DavisPnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • African Customary Justice

    Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics

    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations.Taking Botswana as a casestudy ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

    Edición de Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson ...
    The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to work as carers ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Migration Process

    Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis

    de Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

    Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives

    de Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

    Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives

    de Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The ... Leer más

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  • Debating Cultural Hybridity

    Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

    Edición de Pnina Werbner, Tariq Modood ...
    Series series Postcolonial Encounters
    Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Starting from the reality ... Leer más

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  • Embodying Charisma

    Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

    Edición de Helene Basu, Pnina Werbner ...
    The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers.This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Making of an African Working Class

    Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana

    de Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

    Edición de Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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