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Pilgrims of love: the anthropology of a global sufi cult
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ISBN: 1850656517 1850656525 9781850656517 Year: 2003 Publisher: London: Hurst and company,

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This is a study of the transnational Sufi Naqshbandi order. It discusses the complex organisation of Sufi orders as regional & transnational cults & how such cults are manifested through ritual action & embodied in sacred mythology.

Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims : the public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics
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ISBN: 1930618123 1930618115 0852559216 0852559208 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford [England] : Santa Fe, N.M. : James Currey ; School of American Research Press,

The migration process
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ISBN: 0854966250 1474215769 1472518489 9780854966257 9781859736647 1859736645 1003087108 1000184862 1000181685 9781472518484 9781474215763 9781472518477 1472518470 9781472518477 9781000184860 9781003087106 9781000188318 1000188310 9781000181685 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York New York Berg Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press

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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.


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The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana
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ISBN: 9780745334967 9780745334950 9781783711789 9781783711802 9781783711796 1783711787 0745334962 0745334954 1783711795 1783711809 Year: 2014 Publisher: Pluto Press

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It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of labour activism often neglected in other labour studies. Pnina Werbner shows that by fusing cosmopolitan and local popular cultural forms of protest, unionists have created a distinctive, vernacular way of being a worker in Botswana: one that does not deny workers' roots at home or in the countryside, while being cognisant of a wider world of cosmopolitan labour rights. The assertion of working class dignity, honour and respect, Pnina argues, is a powerful motivating force for manual workers. Against legal-sceptical approaches, The Making of an African Working Class argues that in challenging the government - their employer - in court, manual workers' protests and mobilisation are deeply embedded in ethics, social justice and the law.

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Sociology of work --- Community organization --- Employers and workers organisations --- Botswana --- Labor unions --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Industrial unions --- Labor, Organized --- Labor organizations --- Organized labor --- Trade-unions --- Unions, Labor --- Unions, Trade --- Working-men's associations --- Labor movement --- Societies --- Central labor councils --- Guilds --- Syndicalism --- History --- Employment --- National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union. --- NALCGPMWU --- National Amalgamated Local and Central Government, Parastatal Manual Workers Union --- Botsvana --- GOB --- Republic of Botswana --- Lefatshe la Botswana --- Republiek van Botswana --- Botsuana --- Republica de Botsuana --- Botsouana --- Botsvana Respublikası --- Батсвана --- Batsvana --- Рэспубліка Батсвана --- Rėspublika Batsvana --- Bocvana --- Republika Bocvana --- Ботсвана --- Botswanská republika --- Repaboliki ya Botswana --- Gweriniaeth Botswana --- Republikken Botswana --- Republik Botsuana --- Botswana Vabariik --- Μποτσουάνα --- Δημοκρατία της Μποτσουάνας --- Dēmokratia tēs Botsouanas --- Bocvano --- Respubliko Bocvano --- Botswanako Errepublika --- République du Botswana --- Republik Botswana --- Lýðveldið Botsvana --- Repubblica del Botswana --- Jamhuri ya Botswana --- Botsvanas Republika --- Botsvanos Respublika --- Боцвана --- Република Боцвана --- Republiek Botswana --- ボツワナ --- Botsuwana --- Republika Botswany --- República do Botswana --- República do Botsuana --- Республика Ботсвана --- Respublika Botsvana --- Botswanan tasavalta --- Republiken Botswana --- Republika ng Botswana --- Botsvana Cumhuriyeti --- Республіка Ботсвана --- Cộng hoà Botswana --- 博茨瓦纳 --- Bociwana --- Bechuanaland Protectorate --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- E-books --- Strikes and lockouts --- History. --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- Law / Labor & Employment --- Law --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation


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Embodying charisma : modernity, locality, and performance of emotion in Sufi cults
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ISBN: 1134746938 0203278550 0203025202 1134746946 1280331992 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research.

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Sufism --- Mysticism --- History --- Islam.

Black and ethnic leaderships in Britain : the cultural dimensions of political action
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ISBN: 041504166X Year: 1991 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Anthropology and the new cosmopolitanism
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ISBN: 9781847881984 9781847881977 184788198X 1847881971 9781003084617 1003084613 9781000184600 1000184609 9781847885418 9781000188059 1000188051 9781000181425 1000181421 1474214185 1282285947 9786612285943 1847885411 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford New York Berg

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Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The book's major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North--in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico--juggle universalist commitments with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities.Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. It introduces the reader to key debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, and is written clearly and accessibly for undergraduates in anthropology and related subjects.

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