Alison Shaw

Kinship and Continuity

Pakistani Families in Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study is a vivid, ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford from after World War II to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9789058230751
• ISBN-10: 9058230759
• Artikelnr.: 37148221

Autorenporträt

Alison Shaw

Inhaltsangabe

From Pakistan to Britain
the process of settlement
households and family relationships
the idiom of caste
Biradari solidarity and cousin marriage
honour and shame - gender and generation
health illness and the reproduction of the Biradari
taking and giving - domestic rituals and female networks
public faces - leadership
religion and political mobilization