The migration process : capital, gifts, and offerings among British Pakistanis / Pnina Werbner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werbner, Pnina, author.

Series:

Explorations in anthropology.

Explorations in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pakistanis--England--Manchester--Economic conditions.

Pakistanis.

Pakistanis--England--Manchester--Social life and customs.

Gifts--England--Manchester.

Gifts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berg ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Part I: Capital Accumulation; 1. Chains of Migrants: Culture, Value and the Housing Market; 2. Chains of Entrepreneurs: The Production of an Enterprise Culture; Part II: The Gift Economy: Women, Gifts and Offerings; 3. Marriage, Exchange and the Reproduction of Inequality; 4. Circles of Trust: Women and the Control of Ceremonial Exchange; 5. Giving to God: The 'Naturalisation' of Ritual; 6. Circles of Trust: Multiple Domains of Exchange; 7. Circles of Trust: From Commodities to Gifts

Part III: Conspicuous Giving and Public Generosity8. Hierarchical Gift Economies; 9. Wedding Rituals and the Symbolic Exchange of Substance; 10. The Organisation of Giving and Immigrant Elites; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Maps and Figures of Chapter 1; Appendix 2: Marriage; Appendix 3: Hamid's Network (Three Phases) - Program NDIS; Share Caste (Zat); Iftahar's Network - Program NDIS; Appendix 4: Symbolic Associations of Wedding Substances; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

"First published 1990 by Berg Publishers."

Bibliography: pages 355-371.

ISBN:

1-00-308710-8

1-4725-1847-0

1-000-18168-5

1-003-08710-8

1-000-18486-2

0-85496-625-0

1-4742-1576-9

1-4725-1848-9

9781003087106

OCLC:

903858679