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Zenana : everyday peace in a Karachi apartment building
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Zenana : everyday peace in a Karachi apartment building

Author: Laura A Ring
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Presenting an ethnographic study of a multi-ethnic, middle-class high-rise apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan, this book argues that peace is the product of a relentless daily labour, much of it carried out in the zenana, or women's space. It provides a glimpse into contemporary urban life in a Muslim society.
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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.

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A rare, intimate glimpse into the daily lives of middle-class women in urban Pakistan  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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