Amineh Ahmed

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women

The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the lives, thoughts and gham-khadi (funerals-weddings) ceremonies of Pukhtun women, especially of the elite.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861694
• ISBN-10: 0521861691
• Artikelnr.: 22720841

Autorenporträt

Amineh Ahmed Hoti is a member of the Faculty of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Scholar at Lucy Cavendish College, where she leads a society for interfaith dialogue.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Gham-kh
di: framework and fieldwork; 2. From the inside-out: Bibiane's 'dual lives' in and beyond the house; 3. The work of mourning: death and dismay among Bibiane; 4. Celebrating kh
di: communal Pukhtun weddings and clandestine internet marriages; 5. The work of gham-kh
di: 'not to do gham-kh
di is shameful (sharam); to do it a burden'; Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index.