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Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain

Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain

by Alison Shaw (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $142.66
Synopsis

Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local socio-economic changes. This is a fully updated, revised edition of the book first published in 1988.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 338
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 20 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 9058230759
ISBN 13: 9789058230751

Media Reviews
A remarkably well-researched and well-written book about a large Pakistani immigrant community in Oxford, England. Shaw's thoughtful and sympathetic ethnographic study traces different phases in the transformation of a group of Muslim South Asians from a handful of poor migrants to a well-established and relatively successful community of landlords, shopkeepers and taxi drivers....The book is particularly good on the role that women, in their domestic roles as wives and mothers, play in recreating and reinforcing Islamic codes of behavior and in maintaining Pakistani cultural traditions..
-CHOICE, July 2001
... a superb anthropological study which should rank with the best for teaching purposes as a model for the craft and the subject. Based upon magnificent fieldwork in England and Pakistan, it is beautifully written and produced, and though it deals with the relatively small Pakistani community in Oxford, has relevance for the understanding of Pakistani settlement in Britain generally.
-John Rex of University of Warwick, UK
... by a wide margin, the richest, most comprehensive and most lively account yet produced of life within Britain's booming ethnic colonies.
-Roger Ballard of University of Manchester, UK
This is an engaging account of the Oxford Pakistani community, which convincingly updates the first edition.
-Richard Jenkins of University of Sheffield, UK