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  • Pilgrims of Love

    The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    " . . . will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, DavisPnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • African Customary Justice

    Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics

    by Pnina Werbner, Richard Werbner ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations.Taking Botswana as a casestudy ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

    Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson ...
    The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to work as carers ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Political Aesthetics of Global Protest

    The Arab Spring and Beyond

    Edited by Pnina Werbner ...

    $31.99 USD

  • The Migration Process

    Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

    Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

    Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    by Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Debating Cultural Hybridity

    Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

    Edited by Pnina Werbner, Tariq Modood ...
    Series series Postcolonial Encounters
    Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Starting from the reality ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Embodying Charisma

    Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

    Edited by Helene Basu, Pnina Werbner ...
    The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers.This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Making of an African Working Class

    Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
    A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current ... Read more

    $231.95 USD