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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ring, Laura A., 1968- Zenana. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006 (DLC) 2006016280 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura A Ring |
| ISBN: | 0253116732 9780253116734 |
| OCLC Number: | 243616239 |
| Notes: | "The photographs in this book are by Sheheryar Hasnain." |
| Description: | 1 online resource (211 p.) : ill. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The zenana revisited -- A day in the life -- Tension -- Anger -- Intimacy -- Conclusion: Emotion and the political actor. |
| Responsibility: | Laura A. Ring. |
Abstract:
A rare, intimate glimpse into the daily lives of middle-class women in urban Pakistan
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.".. living among strangers remains an existential problem for many urbanresidents. In Karachi, a city riven by ethnic and sectarian violence since the1980s, such problems take on added significance. In her gracefully written andincisively argued book, Laura Ring contends that the everyday efforts of women inKarachi to transform neighbors into -- if not quite kin -- something other thanstrangers, are the labors of peace." -- Anthropological Quarterly
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- Intergroup relations -- Pakistan -- Karachi -- Case studies.
- Conflict management -- Pakistan -- Karachi -- Case studies.
- Ethnic conflict -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
- Women and peace -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
- Sex role -- Political aspects -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
- Karachi (Pakistan) -- Social conditions.
- Karachi (Pakistan) -- Ethnic relations.
- Ethnizität.
- Frau.
- Koexistenz.
- Nachbarschaft.
- Soziale Stellung.
- Karatschi.
- Intergroup relations -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
- Conflict management -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
