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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460492803321
• Autore: Werbner Pnina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2002; ©1990
• ISBN: 1-000-18168-5; 1-003-08710-8; 1-000-18486-2; 0-85496-625-0; 1-4742-1576-9; 1-4725-1848-9
• Edizione: [Paperback edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Collana: Explorations in Anthropology
• Disciplina: 305.8/914122042733
• Soggetti: Pakistanis - England - Manchester - Economic conditions; Pakistanis - England - Manchester - Social life and customs; Gifts - England - Manchester; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.