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Zenana – Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building

Autor Laura A. Ring
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2006
Ethnic violence is a widespread concern, but we know very little about the micro-mechanics of coexistence in the neighbourhoods around the world where inter-group peace is maintained amidst civic strife. In this ethnographic study of a multi-ethnic, middle-class high-rise apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan, Laura A. Ring argues that peace is the product of a relentless daily labour, much of it carried out in the zenana, or women’s space. Everyday rhythms of life in the building are shaped by gender, ethnic and rural/urban tensions, national culture, and competing interpretations of Islam. Women’s exchanges between households--visiting, borrowing, helping--and management of male anger are forms of creative labour that regulate and make sense of ethnic differences. Linking psychological senses of “tension” with anthropological views of the social significance of exchange, Ring argues that social-cultural tension is not so much resolved as borne and sustained by women’s practices. Framed by a vivid and highly personal narrative of the author’s interactions with her neighbours, her Pakistani in-laws, and other residents of the city, Zenana provides a rare glimpse into contemporary urban life in a Muslim society.Laura A. Ring received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253218841
ISBN-10: 0253218845
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 21 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 168 x 233 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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