The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British PakistanisRoutledge, 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
| 1 | |
Capital Accumulation | 9 |
The Gift Economy Women Gifts and Offerings | 79 |
Conspicuous Giving and Public Generosity | 225 |
Conclusion | 327 |
Maps and Figures of Chapter 1 | 343 |
Marriage | 345 |
Hamids Network Three Phases Program NDIS | 348 |
Symbolic Associations of Wedding Substances | 353 |
| 355 | |
| 372 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis Pnina Werbner Vista previa restringida - 2020 |
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts, and Offerings Among British Pakistanis Pnina Werbner Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |
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