Nafisa Shah

Broschiertes Buch

Honour and Violence

Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

Beschreibung

Examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. An exploration of how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari. An explanation of how modern law is implicated in this seemingly ancient cultural practice.

Autor

Nafisa Shah is a member of the National Assembly, the Lower House of the Parliament of Pakistan. Shah began her public life as a journalist, later studying social and cultural anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, where she received her D.Phil in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781785333651
• ISBN-10: 1785333658
• Artikelnr.: 45560304