The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis

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Routledge, 24 jun 2020 - 412 páginas
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.
 

Índice

Illustrations
Introduction
Culture Value and the Housing Market
The Production of an Enterprise Culture
Marriage Exchange and the Reproduction of Inequality
Women and the Control of Ceremonial Exchange
The Naturalisation of Ritual
Multiple Domains of Exchange
Hierarchical Gift Economies
Wedding Rituals and the Symbolic Exchange of Substance
The Organisation of Giving and Immigrant Elites
Conclusion
Maps and Figures of Chapter 1
Share Caste Zat
References
Index

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Pnina Werbner Senior Lecturer,Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Keele

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